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Hundhausen wins CAREER Award

Christopher Hundhausen, assistant director of LILT and an assistant professor in the Information and Computer Sciences Department, recently won a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. This is the second such award to LILT faculty: last year LILT director Dan Suthers received the award.

With his award, Hundhausen will develop and empirically evaluate of a new approach to teaching computer algorithms in undergraduate computer science classrooms. Based on the studio-based teaching paradigm used in architecture, his novel approach revolves around problem-based "studio" exercises in which students use electronic whiteboards and sketch-based visualization software both to create their own visualizations of the computer algorithms under study, and to present those visualizations to their peers and instructor for feedback and discussion.

NSF established the CAREER program in 1995 to help top performing junior faculty scientists and engineers simultaneously develop their contributions and commitment to research and education. The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty members.

The full press release may be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20020316224245