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Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Guzdial is faculty in the School of Interactive Computing, and is a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan. The author of many books, Mark Guzdial's current research centers on Computing Education and specifically on contextualized computing education. Philosophically, he is a constructivist, even a constructionist, but he sees a need for support to enable and facilitate a student's construction of artifacts and knowledge.
Joseph Gallian is the Morse Alumni Distinguished University Professor of Teaching at the University of Minnesota, and the current President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Keith Devlin is Executive Director of Stanford University's University Center for the Study of Language and Information and a Consulting Professor of Mathematics at Stanford. He is a regular contributor to NPR's popular magazine program Weekend Edition as well as other national radio programs both in the United States and in his native Britain. He is the author of 25 books and over 70 research articles. Devlin is heavily engaged in promoting the public understanding of mathematics and its role in modern society, topics on which he lectures extensively around the world.
Edward Burger is Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. His research interests are in number theory, and he is the author of over 30 research articles and six books including "The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking" (winner of a 2001 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award), and his recent general audience book, "Coincidences, Chaos, And All That Math Jazz." Burger was awarded the 2000 Northeastern Section of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) Award for Distinguished Teaching and 2001 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. In 2002-2003 he was the Ulam Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was awarded the 2003 Residence Life Teaching Award. Burger is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly. The MAA named him the 2001-2003 Polya Lecturer. In 2004 he was awarded Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize. In 2006 Reader's Digest listed him among the "Best of America".
Selwyn Hollis received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1986. His mathematical interests lie primarily in differential equations, numerical analysis, and mathematical biology. He spends much of his spare time programming in Mathematica.
Mike Reed received his Ph.D from Stanford in 1969. He is engaged in several research projects involving both applications of mathematics to physiology and medicine and questions in analysis that arise naturally in this context.
Anant Godbole received his Ph.D in statistics and probability from Michigan State University in 1984. Since then, he has worked and published extensively with both undergraduate and graduate students.
Nancy Amato received her Ph.D in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in motion planning, robotics, computational geometry, computer-aided design, virtual reality, parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, and performance modeling. She has received many awards for her teaching and has been recognized for her research.
Stan Wagon received his Ph.D in 1975 from Dartmouth College. He has made major contributions to the community of Mathematica users. His interest in differential equations led him to construct his square wheeled bicycle and the surface on which it will ride smoothly. His work and outside interest lead him to participate with and captain the Minnesota team in several Annual Breckenridge (Colo.) Interational Snow Sculpture Championships.
Max Morris received his Ph.D in 1977 from Virginia Tech. His interests include experimental design, spatial sampling and modeling, change detection techniques, and the design and analysis of computer experiments.
Tom M. Mitchell is the Fredkin Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Learning in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also Director of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, which focusses on datamining and new computer learning algorithms.Mitchell is best known for his work on machine learning, where he has developed algorithms that allow computers to automatically improve with experience, software that learns to customize to its users, robots that automatically learn about their environment, and web browsers that learn to extract information from hypertext. He is the author of the widely used textbook Machine Learning. Mitchell received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1983, has been a Fellow of the AAAI since 1990, and has been a member of the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board since 1998.
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1986, Mitchell taught at Rutgers University. He received his B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1979.
1996-1997 - William Dunham, Professor of Mathematics at Muhlenberg College.
1995-1996 - Barry Cipra, Mathematical writer (for Science, SIAM News and other publications).
1994-1995 - Thomas Boardman, Professor of Statistics at Colorado State University.
1993-1994 - Paul Halmos, Professor of Mathematics at Santa Clara Uinversity.
1992-1993 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.