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Brian Rosmaita
Brian Rosmaita

Brian Rosmaita, assistant professor of computer science, presented "Making Service Learning Accessible to Computer Scientists" at the Association for Computing Machinery SIGCSE 2007 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, held in Covington, Ky., March 7-10. In his paper, published in the conference proceedings, Rosmaita contends that service learning can play an important role in computer science education.

Although the nature of the discipline poses some serious problems for effectively implementing service learning, he argues that these can be surmounted by reconfiguring a course to include a substantial treatment of accessibility. As evidence for this point, Rosmaita uses a class on accessible web design that he developed at Hamilton as a proof of concept.

He is currently teaching this course as part of the computer science department's CPSCI 105: Explorations in Computer Science series. This series of innovative new introductory courses, covering topics such as robotics, creative evolutionary computation, and accessible web design, has been developed by the Hamilton computer science department in order to reignite interest in Computer Science at Hamilton and on a national level. Topics to be taught in the Fall 2007 semester include virtual reality and human-computer interaction.

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