Roger B. Blumberg Roger B. Blumberg
During 2009-2010 I am an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department, working on a Computers and Society textbook based on my first-year seminar at Brown and related courses I've taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1998-2006, I was a faculty member in the Department, teaching The Educational Software Seminar (CS092) as well as the First-Year Seminar, Computers and Human Values (CS009). Since 1999, I also have been a member of the History, Philosophy and Social Science (HPSS) faculty at The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where my courses have included Science and Society in 20th Century America, Technology and Contemporary Life, and Computing and Its Consequences.
In addition to my work in the Department, I am the Director of Evaluation for Mendele Education LLC, an education company based in Providence that specializes in program evaluation. I am also a member of the Board of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, where I am in my second term as Board Chair.
Before coming to the Computer Science Department, I was a Visiting Scholar at Brown's Institute for Brain and Neural Systems (IBNS), working on the analysis and implementation of biologically-inspired learning algorithms; and then Senior Hypermedia Researcher at Brown's Scholarly Technology Group. At STG I worked on a variety of educational technology projects, and hosted the 1996 Conference on Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology, as part of Brown's participation in the US Department of Education's RTEC for the Northeast, NetTech.
I'm a graduate of Columbia College, where I majored in English and Comparative Literature, and was a high school English teacher in New York City before accepting a full-time Associate in Science position at Columbia in 1986. At Columbia, I taught the general education science course, Theory and Practice of Science, from 1984-1989, as well as a core curriculum Humanities course for first-year students, and a science theory course for the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at Columbia. In addition to my teaching undergraduates at Columbia, Eugene Lang College, Brown and RISD, I authored and taught (for 15 consecutive summers) a mathematics course, in the Columbia Summer Program for High School Students.
I have published articles in a diverse and peculiar series of journals and magazines, in print and online, from The Sciences to the late New York Newsday, from The Brown Teaching Exchange to the Louisiana Educational Technology Review. Most recently, I have become a regular contributor to Mendele's Blog.
