Lecturer Ruth Anderson

"Luck is the residue of design."

Ruth Anderson
Lecturer of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4740

Phone: (434) 982-2212
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: ruth@cs.virginia.edu
Office: 212 Olsson Hall, UVa

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Areas of Interest

Parallelizing compilers, introductory and advanced computer science education

Biographical Sketch

uth Anderson received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 2005. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in September 2000. She is the Faculty Sponsor of the UVa ACM-W Student Chapter, and served as a committee member at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2004.

Research

nderson's research interests focus on addressing the limitations of parallelizing compilers. She is also interested in the pedagogy. of introductory as well as advanced computer science courses. She was a research assistant on measurement and replay of interactive applications under John Zahorjan, with whom she researched compiler optimizations for parallel systems. Her research on educational technology includes topics such as understanding diagrammatic ink in lectures, active learning using tablet PCs, promoting classroom interactions using computer-mediated feedback, and the closed laboratory model in computer science education.

Selected Publications

Understanding Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture, Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman, Computers and Graphics (special issue on Pen Computing), Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2005, pp. 477-638.
Preliminary Experiences with a Tablet PC Based System to Support Active Learning in Computer Science Courses, Beth Simon, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Jonathan Su, Science Courses, ITiCSE 2004: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Leeds, UK, June 2004, pp. 213-217.
A Study of Digital Ink in Lecture Presentation, Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Steven A. Wolfman, Long Paper, CHI 04: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 2004, pp. 567-574.
Experiences with a Tablet PC Based Lecture Presentation System in Computer Science Courses, Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Beth Simon, Steven A. Wolfman, Tammy VanDeGrift, and Ken Yasuhara, SIGCSE 04: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, USA. March 2004, pp. 56-60.
Promoting Interaction in Large Classes with Computer-Mediated Feedback, Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Tammy VanDeGrift, Steven A. Wolfman, and Ken Yasuhara, Short Paper, CSCL 03: Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, Bergen, Norway, June 2003, pp. 119-123.

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