Jeffrey R. N. Forbes
Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
- Faculty Area:
- Computer Science Education
- Email:
- forbes at cs.duke.edu
- Office:
- D235 LSRC
- Phone:
- (919) 660-6550
- Web page:
- http://www.cs.duke.edu/~forbes
Education
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2002
B.S., Stanford University, 1993
Research
Computer science education, intelligent control and robotics, and network science
Selected Publications
- Osborne, R. B., Thomas, T., and Forbes, J. "Teaching with Robots: A Service-Learning Approach to Mentor Training." Proceedings of the 41st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, 2010.
- Osborne, R. B., Thomas, T., and Forbes, J. "RoboCupJunior Primer: Expanding Educational Robotics." Proceedings of the 2010 AAAI Spring Symposium: Using Electronic Tangibles to Promote Learning: Design and Evaluation, March 2010.
- Alt, C., Astrachan, O., Forbes, J., Lucic, R., and Rodger, S. "Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science." Proceedings of the 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, 2006.
- Bailey, T. and Forbes, J. "Just-in-Time Teaching for CS0." Proceedings of the 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005.
- Bailey, T. and Forbes, J. "Computers and Society in CS0: An Interactive Approach." Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2004.