Project Collaborators

This project is a collaborative effort among researchers at different types of schools from different parts of the country. Since one of the goals of the project is to develop resources that can be widely used to teach empirical skills in CS students, the different perspectives and experiences represented by the collaborators will help to ensure that the materials developed serve a diverse range of students and programs.

David Reed is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Creighton University, a medium-sized, regional university in Omaha, NE. He has published extensively in the area of computer science education, as well as authoring a CS0 textbook (A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science, Prentice-Hall, 2005) and laboratory supplement for a CS1 text. He has served on panels discussing computer science education, is active in the Advanced Placement Computer Science program (serving as Chief Reader of APCS starting in 2004), and is a member of the Liberal Arts Computer Science (LACS) Consortium. He has developed several courses that incorporate Web-based programming, problem solving, and experimentation, including an inquiry-based introductory course in which much of the students' learning comes from hypothesis formation and testing.
Email: davereed@creighton.edu
Web page: www.creighton.edu/~davereed

Craig Miller is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at DePaul University, a large, national university in Chicago, IL. His research has been primarily in cognitive science, with graduate and post-doctoral experience using and teaching experimental methodology. Among his work, he has contributed to research in cognition and learning, including the use of controlled user-interaction studies to evaluate cognitive models and interfaces. He has successfully involved students in his research, supervising projects with user modeling and investigation. As part of his teaching responsibilities in computer science and cognitive science, he regularly teaches courses that stress empirical skills such as Human-Computer Interaction and Statistics for Computer Scientists.
Email: cmiller@cs.depaul.edu
Web page: facweb.cs.depaul.edu/cmiller

Grant Braught is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dickinson College, a small, liberal arts college in Carlisle, PA. As a faculty member and software consultant, has contributed to innovative curriculum design and the development of software tools for experimentation and learning. His software tools have been integrated into courses in both the Workshop Physics and Workshop Calculus programs at Dickinson College, as well as at other institutions. Within the computer science curriculum, he has developed a suite of software simulators that can be used across the curriculum to demonstrate the internal workings of computers. In summer 2001, he was awarded a grant for collaborative student/faculty research performing an empirical characterization of a novel routing algorithm for wireless networks. He currently teaches a wide variety of computer science courses, including the capstone Senior Seminar in which he supervises investigative research projects.
Email: braught@dickinson.edu
Web page: www.dickinson.edu/~braught