Mark Guzdial, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mark Guzdial

American academic

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1962

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Profession: academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
He 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.
He is best known for his research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences and internationally in the field of Information Technology.
From 2001-2003, he was selected to be an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, and in 2007 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council.
He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), one of the earliest wiki engines, which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998.
He is the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.