The University of Barbara Ericson – Assistant Professor School of Information Mark Guzdial – Professor CSE & Engineering Research Where is it?

• The is in Ann Arbor, Michigan • The state that looks like a mitten • Ann Arbor consistently ranks in ”Top Places to Live” Lists

Downtown Ann Arbor A Covered Shopping Arcade Facts about Michigan

• Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world. • Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of streams.

View of from the Detroit River Mackinac Bridge What is Michigan Famous For? Henry Ford R. E. Olds • Detroit, Motor City – Car Capital of the World • Motown Music - Hitsville U.S.A • Sanders Desserts

The Dodge Brothers Things to See Near U. Michigan

• Greenfield Village and Ford Museum • Henry Ford’s personal museum of buildings and antique vehicles • Detroit (about 1 hour drive) • Chicago (about 4 hour drive) Facts about the University of Michigan

• #1 Public Research University in the U.S. • National Science Foundation • Top 5 U.S. Public University • U.S. News & World Report • Over 40,000 students • From 122 countries • The football stadium seats over 100,000 people Famous Alumni

• Madonna • James Earl Jones • Darth Vader • Tony Fadell • One of the fathers of the i-pod • Also cofounded Nest Labs • Larry Page • Co-founder of Google • Gerald Ford • 38th President of the The University of Michigan Campuses

• North Campus • and Engineering • Bob and Betty Beyster Building • Central Campus • School of Information • North Quad • Free bus between the two Law School Research Areas Rada Mihalcea NLP Elliot Soloway – – Human Behavior John Laird - AI Educational Tech. • Computer Science and Engineering • Engineering Education • Big Data • Assistive Technologies • Robotics • Computer Games Kentaro Toyama Barry Fishman Nia Dowell • School of Information ICT – Social Learning Learning Change • HCI Environments Environments • Social Computing • Health Informatics • Computer Science Education Barbara Ericson

• Assistant Professor • School of Information • Research Areas • Interactive ebooks • http://tinyurl.com/TeacherCSP-new • http://tinyurl.com/StudentCSP-new • http://tinyurl.com/JavaReview-new • Parsons Problems • Increasing Diversity in Computing • Project Rise Up and Sisters Rise Up Mark Guzdial

• Professor • Computer Science & Engineering • Engineering Education Research • Research Blog: https://computinged.wordpress.com/ • Research Interests • Media Computation • Teaching computing in the context of manipulating digital media • http://mediacomputation.org • Using programming as a notation to learn other subjects better • Mathematics, Economics • Cognitive mechanisms in learning programming • Public policy supports for computing education For more information

• Barbara Ericson, [email protected] • Mark Guzdial, [email protected]