Mike Eisenberg
Professor and Director
Institute of Cognitive Science • Computer Science
michael.eisenberg@colorado.edu

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 葫芦娃视频, where he co-directed听the Craft Technology Lab with his wife, Ann Eisenberg. The lab鈥檚 research blends the most fruitful traditions of children鈥檚 crafts with the affordances of new technologies. He co-edited (with Yasmin Kafai, Leah Buechley听and Kylie Peppler) the book,听Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education, and has authored both a programming textbook,听Programming in Scheme,听and a published play,听Hackers. He was a member of the President鈥檚 Teaching Scholars at CU, and was the recipient of many teaching awards from the university. 听may be read on the Craft Technology website.

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Publications

  • Annie Kelly,听Christine Chang,听Chris听Hill, Mary West, Mary Yoder, Joseph Polman, Shaun Kane, Michael Eisenberg, and R. Benjamin Shapiro. 2020. 鈥淥ur Dog Probably Thinks听Christmas Is Really Boring鈥�: Re-mediating Science Education for Feminist-inspired Inquiry.听ICLS 2020: 听Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences.10.22318/icls2020.935 (Nashville, Tennessee (virtual)鈥揓une 19-23, 2020).
  • Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi,听Michael Eisenberg, and听Mark D. Gross. 2018.听. In听Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children听(IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI:听听(Trondheim, Norway 鈥撎齁une, 2018).
  • HyunJoo Oh, Mark D. Gross, Michael Eisenberg, and Sherry Hsi. 2018. .听Interactions听25, 3 (April 2018), 14-15. DOI: 听(April 2018).
  • Pin-Cheng Lin,听HyunJoo Oh,听Mark D. Gross,听Michael Eisenberg,听Sherry Hsi, Becca Rose Glowacki, Mark Wonnacott, Amy Rose, Emma Powell, Liv Bargman, Seungwoo Je, Brendan Rooney, Liwei Chan, and Andrea Bianchi. 2018.听.听Interactions听25, 2 (February 2018), 6-9. DOI:听.
  • Michael Eisenberg, Sherry Hsi, and听Hyunjoo Oh.听 .听International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. Volume 14, October 2017, Pages 1-4.听

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In the news

Joo Oh speaks remotely as part of panel, Remembering Mike Eisenberg, at FabLearn'20.
HyunJoo Oh: Remembering Mike Eisenberg鈥揊abLearn'20 panel

Oct. 12, 2020

HyunJoo Oh, assistant professor at Georgia Tech and ATLAS alumna, spoke on the panel, "Remembering Mike Eisenberg," at 2020 FabLearn - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education. Eisenberg was a CU 葫芦娃视频 professor of computer science and one of Oh's dissertation advisors. He passed away on March 12, 2019.