Mordechai Ben-Ari
Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari | |
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מרדכי (מוטי) בן-ארי | |
| Known for | Textbooks in computer science, development of educational software tools, research in computer science education |
| Awards | ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, ACM Distinguished Educator, ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science education |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari (Hebrew: מרדכי (מוטי) בן-ארי) is a professor emeritus of computer science education at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[1]
Ben-Ari has published numerous textbooks in computer science,[2][3][4] developed software tools for teaching computer science, and written influential papers[5][6] in computer science education.[7] His primary focus has been on books and tools for learning theoretical concepts in computer science and mathematics, such as concurrency[8] and mathematical logic.[9]
In collaboration with the University of Joensuu (now part of the University of Eastern Finland) his group developed the Jeliot program[10] animation system for teaching elementary computer science and programming.
He has collaborated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on educational robotics using the Thymio robot.
Ben-Ari has published two books under the Springer Open Access program:
- Elements of Robotics with Francesco Mondada.[11]
- Mathematical Surprises.[12]
Ben-Ari received ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions for Computer Science Education in 2004, was named an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2009[13] and received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award in 2019.
References
- ^ Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari personal webpage
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (2009). Ada for Software Engineers: Second Edition with Ada 2005. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-84882-313-6.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (2005). Just A Theory: Exploring The Nature Of Science. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-285-5.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (1996). Understanding programming languages. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-95846-8.
- ^ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Mordechai+Ben-Ari Mordechai Ben-Ari in Google Scholar
- ^ http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Ben=Ari:Mordechai.html Mordechai Ben-Air in DBLP
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (1998). "Constructivism in computer science education". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 30: 257–261. doi:10.1145/274790.274308.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (2006). Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming. Boston: Addison-Wesley (Second Edition). ISBN 978-0-321-31283-9.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (2012). Mathematical Logic for Computer Science (Third ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4471-4128-0.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M.; Bednarik, R.; Ben-Bassat Levy, R.; Ebel, G.; Moreno, A.; Myller, N.; Sutinen, E. (2011). "A decade of research and development on program animation: The Jeliot experience". Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 22 (5): 375–384. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.04.004.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M.; Mondada, F. (2018). Elements of Robotics. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62533-1. ISBN 978-3-319-62533-1. S2CID 4704728.
- ^ Ben-Ari, M. (2022). Mathematical Surprises. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13566-8. ISBN 978-3-031-13566-8.
- ^ Virginia Gold (November 9, 2009). "ACM Names 84 Distinguished Members for Advances in Computing Technology". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
External links
- Jeliot Program Animation System.
- Repositories of pedagogical software and learning materials on GitHub.