Computer Science - Duke University

Owen Astrachan

Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, DUS

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

Paradigmatic changes in computer science education, instruction and pedagogy at scale, understanding programming and how to teach it.

Selected Publications

Steve Wolfman, Owen Astrachan, Mike Clancy, Kurt Eiselt, Jeffrey Forbes, Diana Franklin, David Kay, Mike Scott, and Kevin Wayne. "Teaching-Oriented Faculty at Research Universities." Communications of the ACM. November 2011, v. 54. n 11. pp. 35-37.
Owen Astrachan and Robert Dewar. “CS Education in the U.S.: Heading in the Wrong Direction.” Communications of the ACM. July 2009, v. 52, n. 7, pp. 41-45.
Owen Astrachan. “Pander to Ponder.” SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Chattanooga, TN, 2009.
Casey Alt, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, and Susan Rodger. "Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science." SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, 2006.
Owen Astrachan. A Computer Science Tapestry: Exploring Programming and Computer Science with C++. Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000.