10 Facts About Mark Guzdial

Mark Joseph Guzdial was born on September 7,1962 and is a Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Mark Guzdial was formerly a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the College of Computing and the GVU Center.

Mark Guzdial has conducted research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences and internationally in the field of Information Technology.

Mark Guzdial was the original developer of the CoWeb, one of the earliest wiki engines, which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998.

Mark Guzdial is the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.

Mark Guzdial was born in Michigan and attended Wayne State University for his undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1984.

Mark Guzdial received a master's degree in 1986 in Computer Science and Engineering at Wayne State University.

Mark Guzdial's thesis created an environment for high school science learners to program multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations.

Mark Guzdial was Director of Undergraduate Programs at Georgia Tech until 2007.

Mark Guzdial was Lead Principal Investigator on Georgia Computes, a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing alliance focused on increasing the number and diversity of computing students in the state of Georgia.