Below are some of the creators of and contributers to Alice
Randy was a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Design at Carnegie Mellon, and co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center. He also served as the Director of Carnegie Mellon's Alice research group, where he oversaw the development of Alice.
He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. In 1995, he spent a Sabbatical with the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio and consulted with Imagineering on interactive theme park attractions, particularly for the "DisneyQuest" virtual-reality based theme park. Dr. Pausch authored or co-authored five books and over 60 reviewed journal and conference proceedings articles, and his primary interests were human-computer interaction, entertainment technology and undergraduate education.
Dr. Wanda Dann, an active member of the Alice team for the last decade, has recently assumed leadership of the team. She is currently transitioning into a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University from Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ithaca College. Wanda's research interests include visualization in programming and programming languages and innovative approaches to introductory programming.
With Dr. Steve Cooper and Dr. Randy Pausch, she has published papers on the use of program visualization in teaching and learning introductory programming. Papers have appeared in ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) inroads, the Computer Science Education Journal, and other related publications. She is co-author of Learning to Program with Alice (2006, Prentice-Hall).
Dr. Dann's leadership as a computer science educator has been recognized in her various roles as SIGCSE Technical Symposium publications editor, special projects chair, program chair, and symposium chair. She is now a member of the SIGCSE Board.
Steve Cooper is an Associate Professor (teaching) in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He is currently on leave from Purdue University, where he serves as Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and as a Professor of Computer Science (courtesy). Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saint Joseph's University and the Director its Center for Visualization. His research areas lie in program visualization and semantics. He has been working with Alice and developing Alice-related curricular materials since 1998. Along with Wanda Dann and the late Randy Pausch, he has written many technical papers on Alice, as well as two texts, Learning to Program with Alice (2009, Prentice-Hall) and Exploring Wonderland (2010, Prentice-Hall). The latter text, which includes Barbara Ericson as a co-author, integrates Alice and Media Computation into a single CS1 course. From 2007-2009, Steve worked in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education, within its Education and Human Resources Directorate. There, he worked as a program manager, and worked on the CCLI, ATE, NSDL, SFS, and S-STEM programs.
Current (funded) research projects on which he is working include the creation of a serious game to teach secure coding practices to novice programmers, incorporation of a cognitive tutoring system into Alice, and a new Google-like approach towards digital libraries to make them more usable. Another project on which he is working is towards creating a series of curricular guidelines for IA programs.
Steve also serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Computer Science Teachers Association.
Cleah Schlueter is an Administrative Associate and Project Manager at Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked in the School of Computer Science since August of 1989.
She joined the Alice Project this past year and helps with coordinating events and special projects.
