Computer Science - Duke University

Owen Astrachan

Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Faculty Group: Computer Science Education

Email	ola at cs.duke.edu
Office	D241 LSRC
Phone	(919) 660-6522
Fax	(919) 660-6519
Web page	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola

Education

Ph.D., Duke University, 1992
M.S., Duke University, 1989
M.A.T., Duke University, 1979
A.B., Dartmouth College, 1978

Honors & Awards

NSF CISE Distinguished Education Fellow, 2007; Richard K. Lublin Teaching Award, 2002; Outstanding Instructor in Computer Science (University of British Columbia), 1998; NSF Career Award, 1997; Robert Cox Teaching Award, 1995.

Research

Object-oriented design, software architecture, computer science education, apprentice learning, and automated reasoning.

Selected Publications

Casey Alt, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, Susan Rodger. "Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science," in SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages: 438-442, 2006
Owen Astrachan. "Non-Competitive Programming Contests as the Basis for Just-in-Time Teaching." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. 2004
Owen Astrachan. "Bubble Sort: An Arachaeological Algorithmic Analysis." SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 1-5, 2003.
Owen Astrachan, Robert Duvall, Eugene Wallingford. "Bringing Extreme Programming to the Classroom," published in Extreme Programming Perspectives, ed: Giancarlo Succi, Addison Wesley, 2002.
Owen Astrachan. "A Computer Science Tapestry: Exploring Programming and Computer Science with C++." Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000.