Professor in the School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Mark Guzdial completed a joint Ph.D. in Education and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, studying with Dr. Elliot Soloway. He explores the use of technology for improving education, especially through computing-supported collaboration and expressive media. He was the original creator of “Swiki,” the first Wiki tool designed for use in education. He invented the “Media Computation” approach to introductory computing, where students learn computing through manipulation of digital pictures, sounds, and movies. Through published reports at several universities, the approach has been shown to improve retention and student engagement, without differentiation between genders or between ethnic group. He has written three textbooks supporting the approach.
Dr. Guzdial leads the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing alliance “Georgia Computes!” whose goal is to influence the entire computing education pipeline. The “Georgia Computes!” project provides Girl Scout and YWCA programs in computing, trains high school teachers, trains undergraduate faculty in innovative curricula, and supports the creation of summer camp programs around the state. Dr. Guzdial is also part of the Institute for Personal Robotics in Education, which develops a robotics-centered approach to introductory computing. He is vice-chair of the ACM Education Board.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations - Secretary
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Deanna Kosaraju, Vice President of Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Kirk Ross, Director of Finance
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Kim McLeod, Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
- Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs, HP
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payroll, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President, and Head of Research, Americas and China, and Head of Global Business Incubation, SAP
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Mark Guzdial, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology - Robin Jeffries, Google
- Dr. Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College