Mark Guzdial

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Mark Guzdial
Born
Mark Joseph Guzdial

(1962-09-07) September 7, 1962 (age 61)
Detroit, Michigan, USA
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisEmile: Software-Realized Scaffolding for Science Learners Programming Multiple Media (1993)
Doctoral advisorElliot Soloway[2]
Websitehttps://guzdial.engin.umich.edu/

Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a

Information Technology. From 2001–2003, he was selected to be an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, and in 2007 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), one of the earliest wiki engines, which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998.[5] He is the inventor[citation needed] of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.[1][6][7][8][9][10]

Education

Mark Guzdial was born in

Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. In 2018, he became a full professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan
.

Research and teaching

Guzdial's research projects include Media Computation, an approach that emphasizes context in computer science education, using programming languages, lectures examples, and programming assignments from those contexts that students recognize as being authentic and relevant for computing.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Guzdial's Media Computation curriculum is being used at universities across the country.[citation needed] He received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2006 to pursue his “Using Media Computation to Attract and Retain Students in Computing” curriculum.[21]

Guzdial was Director of Undergraduate Programs at Georgia Tech (including the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational Media, and Minor in Computer Science) until 2007. He was Lead Principal Investigator on Georgia Computes, a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing alliance focused on increasing the number and diversity of computing students in the state of Georgia.[22]

Publications

His publications include:

  • 2015 Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics).
  • 2006. Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach. (with Barbara Ericson)
  • 2004. Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach.
  • 2001. Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia. (with Kim Rose)
  • 2000. Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications.

Awards and honors

In 2010, Guzdial was awarded the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award "for [his] contributions to computing education, through the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach that they have created, supported, and disseminated, and its impact on broadening participation in computing."[23] In 2012, he received the IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award "for outstanding and sustained excellence in computing education through innovative teaching, mentoring, inventive course development, and knowledge dissemination."[24] In 2014, Guzdial was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to computing education, and broadening participation."[25] In 2019, Guzdial was awarded the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education at the 50th SIGCSE Technical Symposium "in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education".[26]

Personal life

Guzdial was married to Barbara Ericson in July 1985. They have three children, Matthew, Katherine, and Jennifer.

References

  1. ^ a b Mark Guzdial publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Mark Guzdial at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^
    ProQuest 304076207
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  4. ^ "EECS Faculty". www.eecs.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  5. ISBN 9780201714999
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  6. doi:10.1145/2576891.2576892
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  7. doi:10.1145/1922681.1925843
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  8. ^ Mark Guzdial author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  9. ^ Mark Guzdial's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ^ Mark Guzdial at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  11. S2CID 52818605
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  12. S2CID 9067261
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  13. S2CID 493949
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  14. doi:10.1145/1227504.1227456
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  15. S2CID 9062542
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  16. S2CID 109517
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  17. ISBN 978-0-13-149698-9
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  18. ISBN 978-0-13-402554-4
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  19. ISBN 978-0-13-028091-6
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  20. ISBN 978-0-13-028028-2
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  21. ^ Media Computation To Attract & Retain Students — College of Computing Archived February 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ Welcome to "Georgia Computes!" — Georgia Computes! Archived September 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award 2010
  24. ^ "Mark Guzdial Honored with 2012 CS and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award". IEEE Computer Society. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  25. ^ ACM Fellows 2014
  26. ^ "2019 SIGCSE Awards". Retrieved December 21, 2018.
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