Organization
University of Colorado Boulder
Profile
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Employment TypeUniversity / College Faculty
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Address(es)Prof. Ken Anderson
University of Colorado
430 UCB
Boulder CO, 80309-0430
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Biography
Ken Anderson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He co-directs Project EPIC, a $4M NSF grant that investigates how members of the public make use of social media during times of mass emergency. Professor Anderson leads the design and implementation of a large-scale data collection and analytics system for that project.
Prof. Anderson was a participant in the first cohort of the NCWIT Pacesetters program, a program designed to recruit more women to the field of computer science and encourage them to pursue their careers in technology. As part of his Pacesetters efforts, Prof. Anderson led the charge to create a new BA in CS degree at CU that allows students in Arts and Sciences to earn a degree in computer science. This new degree program was first offered in Fall 2013 and had 240 students enroll during its first semester and now has nearly 600 majors less than two years later!
Prof. Anderson also organizes and hosts the annual NCWIT Colorado Aspirations in Computing Award, something he has done for the past five years. This award recognizes the computing achievements of female high school students in Colorado and encourages them to enroll in computer science at the college level.
Prof. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include hypermedia, the design of reliable large-scale software infrastructure, the design and implementation of data-intensive systems, and the design of web application frameworks.
In the distant past, Prof. Anderson played trombone for 15 years and now lives vicariously as a musician via his three children who are all learning piano and are now branching out to other instruments. In his copious spare time, Prof. Anderson loves to read science fiction and fantasy novels and to teach his kids how to program.
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