Dr. David S. Touretzky is a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His current research focus is teaching programming to K-12 students using an idiom-based approach to a visual programming language developed by Microsoft, and robotics education for computer science undergraduates using the Tekkotsu robot software framework developed in his own lab. As co-founder of the ARTSI Alliance, funded by the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Computing Program, Dr. Touretzky helped to introduce advanced robotics technology based on Tekkotsu to 17 historically black colleges and universities. Presently he runs the annual ARTSI Robotics Competition sponsored by the Institute for African American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (iAAMCS). Dr. Touretzky’s previous research areas include artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. He is a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and was named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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