Invited Speakers
Prof. Mark Joseph Guzdial
Georgia Tech; www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/mark-guzdial (confirmed)
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mark is a member of the GVU Center, the Cognitive Science program, and the EduTech Institute.
He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed Emile, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), which is now one of the most widely used Wiki engines in Universities around the world. He is the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.
Prof. Hans-Ulrich Heiss
TU Berlin; www.kbs.tu-berlin.de (abstract of talk)
BIOGRAPHY
1973-79 | Study of Computer Science at University of Karlsruhe |
1980-95 | Research staff member at the Chair of Operating Systems (University of Karlsruhe) |
1987 | PhD (Computer Science, Univ. Karlsruhe) |
1988-89 | Post-Doc-Fellow at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights |
1990-95 | Assistant Professor at Univ. of Karlsruhe |
1990 | Visiting Professor at University of Helsinki, Finnland |
1993 | Habilitation (Computer Science, Univ. Karlsruhe) |
1994-95 | Temporary professorship for Distributed Systems and Operating Systems at Technische Universität Ilmenau |
1995-2001 | Professor for Practical Computer Science at University of Paderborn |
since March 2001 | Professor for Communication and Operating Systems at Technische Universität Berlin |