Principal Authors

Tim Bell
Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand
www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/
Tim is pretty much an OK guy.
Ian Witten
Hamilton, New Zealand
www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/
Mike Fellows
Calaghan, NSW Australia
www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~mfellows/

Advisory Board

Bengt Aspvall
Sweden
Bengt Aspvall is a professor at BTH, Sweden. He co-designed the pilot videos and is working on Scandinavian translations of the material.
Lenore Blum
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Lenore Blum is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, and organiser of the CS4HS and CS4ALL programs.
Anna Charny
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Anna Charny is chair of the school board of the Advanced Maths Science Academy high school near Boston. She is at CISCO System Inc.
Sam Chung
Tacoma, Washington USA
Sam Chung is a professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Tom Cortina
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Tom Cortina is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, and organiser of the CS4HS and CS4ALL programs.
Robb Cutler
Robb Cutler is the president of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
Peter J Denning
Monterey, California USA
cs.gmu.edu/cne/denning
Peter J Denning, one of the first academically trained computer scientists, is a pioneer in the field of operating systems, a past President of ACM, and the Director of the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. As leader of the Great Principles of Computing project he sees computing as a natural science as well as an engineering field.
Rick Dipaolo
Columbus, Ohio USA
Rick Dipaolo is a professor at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio. He is interested in K-12 education, improving teaching methods, and distance learning.
Paul Gibson
France
Paul Gibson is currently working at La Grand Ecole de Telecommunication (INT-Evry), France in the department LOR; having previously taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France. He has many years of experience teaching computer science, programming and problem solving to school children (from as young as 5 years old). While at Maynooth, he was director of a children's science camp (2002 - 2004) where hundreds of school children got to experience fun experiments and puzzles in all scientific disciplines, including computer science. As part of his own computer science research, he is interested in algorithmic understanding and how children (and adults) learn to solve problems and manage problem complexity.
Pam Hagen
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Pam Hagen is an elementary school maths teacher and innovator in Vancouver.
Mindy Hart
West Lafayette, Indiana USA
Mindy Hart is the Computer Science outreach coordinator at Purdue University.
Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson, member of the ACM curriculum committees and involved in computer science outreach
Susumu Kanemune
Tokyo, Japan
Susumu Kanemune is an associate professor in the Computer Center at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He is the translator and editor of the Japanese version of the Unplugged Teacher's Edition.
Ben Tsutom Wada
Nagano, Japan
Ben Tsutom Wada is a Professor of Informatics Education at Nagano University, Japan. He understands Chinese, Korean, and Japanse languages along with English, mainly advises on linguistic aspects of Unplugged activities in Asian countries.
Rachel Kestenbaum
Chicago, Illinois USA
Rachel Kestenbaum is the Manager of High School Mathematics for Chicago schools.
Paddy Krishnan
Robina, Queensland Australia
Paddy Krishnan is a professor at Bond University in Australia. He has used the Unplugged material for many years, and has a grant to translate the book into Indonesian. He is interested in formal methods and also in popularising the science of computation.
Lynn Lambert
Newport News, Virginia USA
www.pcs.cnu.edu/~lambert/
Lynn Lambert is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She is actively involved in increasing participation in science and the computing sciences at many levels, having been Principal Investigator for one NSF-funded and three NASA-funded grants, serving as a research mentor in the CRA distributed mentor project, and doing frequent unplugged-type outreach especially at the elementary school level.
Lee Won Gyu
Seoul, Korea
Lee Won Gyu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science Education at Korea University in Seoul. He is the translator and editor of the Korean version of the Unplugged Teacher's Edition, and an enthusiast for K-12 Computer Science Education.
Geri Lorway
Alberta Canada
Geri Lorway is a maths educator based in Alberta, Canada.
Craig Nevill-Manning
New York, New York USA
Craig Nevill-Manning is the Engineering Director of Google New York.
Andy and Todd Seymour
Ohio USA
Andy and Todd Seymour teach technology in an Ohio elementary and high school respectively, and run the EdTechMusician podcast.
Harold Thimbleby
Swansea, UK
Harold Thimbleby is a professor at the University of Swansea, UK.
Alfred Thompson
Alfred Thompson is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft where he focuses his attention on pre-collegiate computer science programs. He has been a high school computer science teacher, a technology coordinator and is the author of several high school programming textbooks. He was also a professional software developer for over 18 years.
Allen Tucker
Allen Tucker, chair of the recent ACM K-12 committee, and past chair and member of the ACM curriculum committee
David Vogt
David Vogt is an educational consultant and expert on Children's Science Museums.
Len Wanger
Chicago, Illinois USA
Len Wanger is a Chicago computer scientist, business advisor and computer game expert.
Xia Xie
Huazhong, Wuhan China
Xia Xie is a professor from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. She is publishing the Unplugged material in mainland China.

Translators

Anna Wingkvist
Sweden
Anna Wingkvist is a PhD student in Sweden working on computers and education. She is working on a Swedish and possibly Norwegian translation.
Benny Chor
Israel
Benny Chor is translating Unplugged into Hebrew.
Shimon Schocken
Israel
Shimon Schocken is translating Unplugged into Hebrew.
Alfonso Rodriguez
Alfonso Rodriguez is coordinating a Spanish translation.
Paul Gibson
Aubiere, France
Paul Gibson (Ensemble Scientifique des Cézeaux, Aubiere, France) is in the early stages of working on a French translation.
Anne Berry
Aubiere, France
Anne Berry (Ensemble Scientifique des Cézeaux, Aubiere, France) is in the early stages of working on a French translation.
Sertan Girgin
Turkey
Sertan Girgin is investigating doing a series for a popular magazine in Turkey.
Theophanis Hatzigrivas
Greece
Theophanis Hatzigrivas has started on a Greek translation.
Katharina Kranzdorf
Bonn, Germany
Katharina Kranzdorf from the “Einstieg Informatik” project (Bonn) has translated two of the activities into German for Germany’'s “Year of Computer Science” (Informatik Jahr, 2006).
Mohammed Obaid
Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mohammed Obaid is working on an Arabic translation.
Sook Kyoung Choi
Korea
Sook Kyoung Choi (Korea University) has produced a Korean translation of the Teacher's’ edition.
Professor Lee
Prof Lee (Korea University) has produced a Korean translation of the Teacher's’ edition.
Tom Verhoe
Tom Verhoeff (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) has expressed interest in possibly translating Unplugged into Dutch.
Long-Yuan Ya
Taiwan Long-Yuan Yan at the Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education at NTNU (National Taiwan Normal University) has translated four activities into Traditional Chinese and is working on more.
Swami Manohar
Bangalore, India
Swami Manohar in Bangalore is planning a Tamil translation.
Faisal Hasan
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Faisal Hasan at Dhaka University is planning a Bengali translation.

Other Contributors

Isaac Freeman
Christchurch, New Zealand
isaac.freeman.org.nz
Janet Ash
Janet Ash, Green River Community College.
Bill Baritompa
Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bill Baritompa is a professor at the University of Canterbury who has been involved in Maths Barn Dances and other outreach efforts, and is interested in maths videos.
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin is involved in the “CS4HS” (Computer Science for High Schools) and “CS4All” (Computer Science for all) programmes.
Ed Lazowska
Washington USA
Ed Lazowska (Washington) is involved in the “CS4HS” (Computer Science for High Schools) and “CS4All” (Computer Science for all) programmes.
Peter McOwan
Peter McOwan (Queen Mary University) is involved in the “CS4HS” (Computer Science for High Schools) and “CS4All” (Computer Science for all) programmes.
Steven Cushing
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Steven Cushing from the Advanced Maths Science Academy high school near Boston, a teacher who uses the existing book as a text book.
Valerie DeBellis
Valerie DeBellis is involved in the DIMACS summer programs.
Jerry Farrell
Indianapolis USA
Jerry Farrell is a professor at Butler University, Indianapolis, in the Maths department. He is a designer of puzzles, mathematical games and crosswords.
John Fulton
John Fulton, Franklin University.
Saul Greenberg
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Saul Greenberg is a professor at Calgary University.
Jen Hellige
Chicago, Illinois USA
Jen Hellige is a student at NorthWestern University (Chicago) interested in evaluating the activities, particularly in relation to recruitment and retention of girls.
Cinda Hereen
Cinda Hereen at UIUC is using Unplugged activities for outreach, and have developed related activities and extensions of the existing ones.
Juraj Hromkovic
Zurich, Switzerland
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich ETH)
Dr. Hyeoncheol Kim
Korea
Dr. Hyeoncheol Kim (Dept of Computer Science Education, Korea University) is an expert in CS education for K-12 and Artificial Intelligence.
Todd O’'Bryan
Louisville, Kentucky USA
Todd O’'Bryan (duPont Manual High School in Louisville) teaches Maths and CS.
JungHo Park
Korea
JungHo Park has funding from the Korea Research Foundation to develop unplugged-style activities and evaluate them.
Matt Powell
Christchurch, New Zealand
Matt Powell is the cartoonist who did the illustrations for the “Teachers’ Edition” of Unplugged.
Fran Rosamond
Newcastle, NSW Australia
Fran Rosamond, University of Newcastle, is an experienced Unplugged presenter.
Susie Shields
Susie Shields is the CS outreach coordinator at Washington.
Jeff Walz
Jeff Walz (Head of University Relations at Google) has provided valuable support for the Unplugged project.
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Parrots

Arnold
Arnold would be happy to dispose of any unwanted crackers you might have about your person.