Roundtable Bios

Photo	Name & Affiliation	Bio/blurb/career highlights/anecdotes/historical fiction
	Julie Zelenski Lecturer Department of Computer Science Stanford University	I started teaching at Stanford as a graduate student which segued into career as a lecturer in the undergraduate program at Stanford, where I've been for 17 years. I have mostly focused on teaching CS1/CS2 and other intro programming/systems courses in large lecture format. I think I became a teacher because any time I learn something cool, my first reaction is to want to share it with someone else. And CS is full of awesome ideas worth sharing! -- Things I wish I had known...
	Dave Reed Associate Professor Chair, Department of Computer Science Creighton University	I started teaching while a grad student at Duke University in the late 80's, and ended up teaching full-time at a historically-black women's college while finishing my degree. After graduation, I taught as visiting faculty at Duke and then at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Since 2000, I have been at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. In my career so far, I have: taught both large and extremely small classes, redesigned curriculum and courses, written a text book, earned tenure twice, served as department chair, arranged a department split, arranged a department merger, and juggled priorities "solving" the two-body problem. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Valerie Barr Professor Chair, Computer Science Department Union College	I taught a bit during my first graduate school life and immediately after I started working in industry. In 1987 I left industry for a teaching job, found a research topic, went back to grad school, and decided that the academic life suited me quite well. It took me 7 years to do my Ph.D. but I taught full-time for 3.5 of those, and was a TA with my own course (and my own TA!) for 1.5 years. I have taught 60-100 person classes, and learned everyone's name, but my true love is residential liberal arts colleges. I enjoy getting to know the students, feeling that I play a role in shaping them and shepherding them through the college experience. In addition to CS courses, I sometimes teach the Intro to Women and Gender Studies, and seminars in our honors program. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Susan Haller Professor Computer Science Department State University of New York at Potsdam	I have been teaching for over 30 years. I started out as a high school mathematics teacher. I then started teaching mathematics at the community college level. It is then that I started teaching CS 1 and 2 after having barely taken those courses myself. The experience led me to take more graduate level CS courses, and I eventually completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Buffalo. I taught undergraduate CS at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside for 11 years, and I am in my sixth year teaching undergraduate CS at the State University of New York at Potsdam. The core courses that I have taught are CS 1 and 2, programming languages, AI, operating and distributed systems, discrete math, theory. organization and assembly language, and architecture. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Stuart Reges Principal Lecturer Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington	I began teaching in January of 1981 as a Masters student at Stanford. I was at the right place at the right time to take over the intro courses later that year. I then spent 10 years on various curriculum projects at Stanford (intro, cs1 textbook, CS major, related majors). Then I did something that made me unemployable for five years (google "reges fired" if interested). Then I spent 8 years at the University of Arizona following a similar path (redesigning intro, then working on the undergrad curriculum). Since 2004 I've been at the University of Washington. I was hired to redesign the intro courses and now I'm co-chair of a committee that is revamping the undergraduate major. Although my first class had just 30 students, most often I teach large lecture classes (currently 570 cs1 students split into two sections). -- Things I wish I had known...
	Steve Wolfman Senior Instructor Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia	My first formal teaching gig was TAing at Duke U (not long after taking my first college CS course from Dave Reed). I TA'd frequently as an undergrad, then twice as a graduate student. In my third year as a graduate student my advisor was fortuitously looking to buy out of teaching a course while I was looking to try teaching one. I ended up teaching two courses as a grad student, changing my research area to HCI with a focus on CS education, and (in 2004) getting a fabulous tenure-track, teaching-oriented faculty position at UBC in Vancouver. At UBC, I teach four courses per year (on a roughly semester system), advise students about program choices, work on various committees, do a bit of research with students, and work on higher-level curriculum design and pegadogical issues. -- Things I wish I had known...

2011 Participants