Bio

Teaching Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote the three-volume for Computer Science Logo Style teenagers, and co-wrote (with Matthew Wright) Simply Scheme, a textbook for undergraduates. He was lead developer of Berkeley Logo, an implementation that's free in both senses and has become something of a de facto standard. He is co-developer (with Jens Mönig) of the Snap! visual programming language, and co-developer (with Daniel Garcia) of The Beauty and Joy of Computing, a CS breadth course for non-computer scientists that uses Snap!. Brian's Ph.D. is in Science and Mathematics Education, from UC Berkeley, but he really spent his time as a student there taking philosophy courses. His proudest achievement, though, is the computer center he built at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1980, where courses weren't graded and kids had keys to the room. He'll talk about it for hours if you let him.