Mike Eisenberg
Professor and Director
Institute of Cognitive Sciences • Computer Science

Mike Eisenberg passed away on March 12, 2019. He was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he co-directedthe Craft Technology Lab with his wife, Ann Eisenberg. The lab’s research blends the most fruitful traditions of children’s crafts with the affordances of new technologies. He co-edited (with Yasmin Kafai, Leah Buechleyand Kylie Peppler) the book,Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education, and has authored both a programming textbook,Programming in Scheme,and a published play,Hackers. He was a member of the President’s Teaching Scholars at CU, and was the recipient of many teaching awards from the university. may be read on the Craft Technology website.

Publications

  • Annie Kelly,Christine Chang,ChrisHill, Mary West, Mary Yoder, Joseph Polman, Shaun Kane, Michael Eisenberg, and R. Benjamin Shapiro. 2020. “Our Dog Probably ThinksChristmas Is Really Boring”: Re-mediating Science Education for Feminist-inspired Inquiry.ICLS 2020: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences.10.22318/icls2020.935 (Nashville, Tennessee (virtual)–June 19-23, 2020).
  • Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi,Michael Eisenberg, andMark D. Gross. 2018.. InProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children(IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI:(Trondheim, Norway –June, 2018).
  • HyunJoo Oh, Mark D. Gross, Michael Eisenberg, and Sherry Hsi. 2018. .Interactions25, 3 (April 2018), 14-15. DOI: (April 2018).
  • Pin-Cheng Lin,HyunJoo Oh,Mark D. Gross,Michael Eisenberg,Sherry Hsi, Becca Rose Glowacki, Mark Wonnacott, Amy Rose, Emma Powell, Liv Bargman, Seungwoo Je, Brendan Rooney, Liwei Chan, and Andrea Bianchi. 2018..Interactions25, 2 (February 2018), 6-9. DOI:.
  • Michael Eisenberg, Sherry Hsi, andHyunjoo Oh. .International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. Volume 14, October 2017, Pages 1-4.

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