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Drew  University

About our Presenters:

Steve Kass is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University. His teaching includes courses for the Master of Arts in Teaching program and the Business, Society and Culture program.

Steve graduated from Pomona College and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He is a 7-time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional Award in recognition of his expert contributions to technical communities. He recently authored two chapters in "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying," published in March, and coauthored a 2007 mathematical paper in the journal Complex Systems. He has also been a faculty exam reader for AP Computer Science, most recently in 2008.

David Klappholz is an associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, where his specialty is software engineering. Dr. Klappholz spent a Fall 2002 sabbatical with Barry Boehm at USC and has worked with Prof. Boehm every summer since then. In addition to his interest in empirical software engineering research, Prof. Klappholz works, under NSF funding, with an educational psychologist on issues relating to engineering education pedagogy. He is also a member of a Stevens-based,DoD-supported, team that is crafting a reference standard M.S. curriculum in software engineering, a curriculum with a heavy systems engineering slant. In a previous incarnation Prof. Klappholz did research, supported by NSF, IBM Research, DoE, and others, on parallel machine architecture, automatic code parallelization, compiler optimizations, and, in his professional infancy, on natural language understanding and translation.

Donald J. Slater is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He came to Carnegie Mellon in the Fall of 2000, after 20 years of teaching computer science and technology in secondary schools in Western Pennsylvania.

He joined the Alice Team, headed by Dr. Randy Pausch, in the fall of 2005, with an emphasis in the development of curricular materials. He has led teacher-training workshops around the country, and presented at various conferences, including NECC, SIGCSE, IMICT, and ISECON.

He is a consultant for the College Board in Advanced Placement Computer Science. He has served as a reader and leader at the yearly Advanced Placement Computer Science Exam grading. He has written articles for the College Board and led teacher workshops throughout the east, and now directs the Advanced Placement Teacher Workshop held each summer at Carnegie Mellon.

Alfred Thompson is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft where he has worked for the last six years. Prior to Microsoft, Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. Before teaching, Alfred was a software developer for 18 years. As a developer he worked on developing everything from accounting applications to operating systems. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic and C# in high school and middle school. He maintains a computer science education blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth