Brett Becker

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Brett A. Becker
CitizenshipIreland, United States
Alma materDrew University, Technological University of Dublin, National University of Ireland - University College Dublin
Known forComputer Science Education; Textbook Author
Websitepeople.ucd.ie/brett.becker

Brett A. Becker is an American/Irish computer scientist and author, known for his work in computing education.

Research and academic work

Becker was elected Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) in 2022[1][2] and sits on the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society/AAAI International Task Force for the revision of the CS 2013 Computer Science Curricula which is used by thousands of Computer Science Institutions globally.[3] He is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computing Education (ACM TOCE)[4] and a member of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Council.[5]

Becker is an Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, the highest individual national distinction for teaching in higher education.[6] He is also the President of the All-Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE)[7] which runs conferences and publishes The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), where he is also the Technical Editor.[8] He is the lead author on the first second-level (high school) textbook based on the new Irish Computer Science curriculum (the Leaving Certificate Computer Science).[9][10]

Awards and distinctions

  • Best Position and Curricula Initiatives Paper, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2023)[11]
  • Australasian Computing Education Conference (2022)[12]
  • ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2021)[13]
  • Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow (2020)[6]
  • Best Reviewed Paper Award, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference (2020)[14]
  • "Top 5 in 25 Award" for the top 5 working group reports of the first 25 years of ACM ITiCSE (2020)[15]
  • ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2019)[16]
  • ACM "People of ACM European Chapters" (2019)[17]

Publications

Becker has published over 100 internationally peer-reviewed papers.[18][19][20][21][22][23]

References

  1. ↑ "ACM SIGCSE". sigcse.org. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  2. ↑ "2022 ACM SIGCSE Election Results". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  3. ↑ Roach, Steven; Sahami, Mehran (March 2015). "CS2013: Computer Science Curricula 2013". Computer. 48 (3): 114–116. doi:10.1109/MC.2015.68. ISSN 1558-0814.
  4. ↑ "ACM TOCE". ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE). Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  5. ↑ "Member Networks | icedonline.net". icedonline.net. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Ireland's Inaugural Teaching and Learning Research Fellows Named". National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  7. ↑ "Executive Committee". AISHE. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  8. ↑ "AISHE-J Board | AISHE-J". 26 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  9. ↑ "Computer Science for Leaving Certificate - Golden Key Educational Publishing". Retrieved 2020-01-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ Reporter, LaoisToday (2020-01-29). "Laois lecturer releases new computer science textbook for Leaving Cert". Laois Today. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  11. ↑ Doyle, Maureen; Stephenson, Ben; Dorn, Brian; Soh, Leen-Kiat; Battestilli, Lina (2023-03-02). "SIGCSE TS 2023 Chairs' Welcome". Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1. Toronto ON Canada: ACM. doi:10.1145/3545945. ISBN 978-1-4503-9431-4.
  12. ↑ Sheard, Judy; Denny, Paul, eds. (2022-02-14). "ACE '22: Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference". Australasian Computing Education Conference. Virtual Event Australia: ACM. doi:10.1145/3511861. ISBN 978-1-4503-9643-1.
  13. ↑ Mooney, Catherine; Becker, Brett A. (2021-05-10). "Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computing students' sense of belonging". ACM Inroads. 12 (2): 38–45. doi:10.1145/3463408. ISSN 2153-2184.
  14. ↑ "Awards - ICER 2020". icer.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  15. ↑ "ITiCSE announces awards first 25 years". sigcse.org. Retrieved 2020-08-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ↑ "SIGCSE 2019". sigcse2019.sigcse.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  17. ↑ "People of ACM: Brett Becker". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  18. ↑ "Brett A. Becker". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  19. ↑ "Brett A. Becker - Home". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  20. ↑ ORCID. "Brett A. Becker (0000-0003-1446-647X)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  21. ↑ "Brett A. Becker - DBLP Computer Science Bibliography". Retrieved 2021-01-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ↑ "Brett Becker's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  23. ↑ "B. Becker | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.

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