Abelson Honored with ACM Educator Award

CML co-director Hal Abelson, a driving force behind the development of App Inventor, both at Google and MIT, has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with the Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award for his contributions to computer science education. Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and co-chair of the MIT Council on Educational Technology.