Where Computer Science and Education Intersect: An Interview with Mehran Sahami, Ph.D.
Abstract
Mehran Sahami is a Professor and Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Professor Sahami completed his BS and PhD degrees in Computer Science at Stanford before working as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany and a full-time Senior Research Scientist at Google. He taught as a Lecturer at Stanford from 2001 to 2006 and joined the CS faculty in 2007. His research interests include computer science education, artificial intelligence, and web search. In this interview, Professor Sahami discusses computer science education, his personal experiences teaching computer science, and the growing role that computer science plays in our society.
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