Nell B. Dale

Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981–85, and from 1987–93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991–93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.

Nell B. Dale
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Houston
University of Texas at Austin
Known forcomputer science education
textbooks
AwardsACM Fellow (2009)
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin
Websitewww.cs.utexas.edu/users/ndale/

Biography

Dale received a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Houston in 1960. She received a M.A. in Mathematics from University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Texas in Austin in 1972.

She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin as an instructor in 1975, then a lecturer in 1977, a Senior Lecturer in 1981, and retired in 2000.

Dale wrote 16 textbooks on Pascal, C++, Visual Basic, Java and Ada.

Bibliography

(with John Lewis) Computer Science Illuminated (5th Edition 2012). Jones and Bartlett. ISBN 978-1449672843

Awards

In the year 2009[1] she was named an ACM Fellow.

Her other notable awards include:

  • ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Educator Award (2001)[2]
  • IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Award (2013)[3]
  • SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (1996)[4]

References
  1. Association for Computing Machinery (December 1, 2009). "ACM Names 47 Fellows for Innovations in Computing, Information Technology". ACM. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  2. Association for Computing Machinery (2013-08-17). "ACM Awards - Karl V. Karlstrom Educator Award". ACM. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
  3. IEEE (2013-08-17). "IEEE Computer Society Awards Education Awards Taylor Booth Past Recipients Nell B. Dale". IEEE. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
  4. Association for Computing Machinery SIGCSE (2013-08-17). "SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution Award". ACM SIGCSE. Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
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