Ruth E. Anderson

(pronouns: she · her)

Associate Teaching Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

rea [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu
Paul G. Allen Center, Office 558

Teaching

Courses I have taught recently. Quarters are in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent quarter for each course in bold.

Course	Quarters
CSE 332: Data Structures & Parallelism	Spring 2023 Winter 2023 Winter 2022 Winter 2021
CSE 391: System and Software Tools	Spring 2023 Winter 2023 Autumn 2022
CSE 160: Data Programming	Autumn 2022 Autumn 2021 Autumn 2020
CSE 351: The Hardware/Software Interface	Spring 2022 Spring 2021 Spring 2020
CSE General TA Training	Winter 2017 through Spring 2023
CSE 590E: Computer Science Education Seminar	Autumn 2018 through Spring 2023 (Links to most recent 8 quarters, find others via url for that quarter)

Professional Activities

• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Associate Program Chair (2013-2015, 2017-2021)
• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Posters Co-Chair (2020, 2021)
• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Publications Chair (2017-2019)
• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Local Arrangements (2017)
• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Panels & Special Sessions Chair (2016)
• SIGCSE Technical Symposium Workshops Co-Chair (2010, 2011)
• ICER Program Committee (2018-present)

Selected Publications

Computer Science Education

• Considering Computing Education in Undergraduate Computer Science Programmes Quintin Cutts, Maria Kallia, Ruth Anderson, Tom Crick, Marie Devlin, Mohammed Farghally, Claudio Mirolo, Ragnhild Kobro Runde, Otto Seppälä, Jaime Urquiza-Fuentes, and Jan Vahrenhold. To Appear in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2023), Turku, Finland, July 2023.
• Preparing, Visualizing, and Using Real-world Data in Introductory Courses Austin Cory Bart, Kalpathi Subramanian, Ruth E. Anderson, and Nadeem Abdul Hamid. SIGCSE 2018: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Minneapolis, MN, USA. February 2018.
• “I Don’t Code All Day”: Fitting in Computer Science When the Stereotypes Don’t Fit Colleen M. Lewis, Ruth E. Anderson, Ken Yasuhara. ACM International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER’16), Melbourne, VIC, AUS, September 2016.
• A Data Programming CS1 Course Ruth E. Anderson, Michael D. Ernst, Robert Ordóñez, Paul Pham, and Ben Tribelhorn. SIGCSE 2015: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Kansas City, MO, USA. March 2015.
• Introductory programming meets the real world: using real problems and data in CS1 Ruth E. Anderson, Michael D. Ernst, Robert Ordóñez, Paul Pham, and Steven A. Wolfman. SIGCSE 2014: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta, GA, USA. March 2014.
• ACM/IEEE computer science 2013 exemplar-fest Andrea Danyluk, Steve Roach, Elizabeth K. Hawthorne, Henry M. Walker, Ruth E. Anderson, and Christa M. Chewar. SIGCSE 2013: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, CO, USA. March 2013.
• Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments: Three Approaches to a Multidisciplinary Capstone Sequence Ruth E. Anderson, Beth Kolko, Gaetano Borriello, Richard J. Anderson. Proceedings of 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2012), Seattle, WA, USA. October 2012.
• Introducing Parallelism and Concurrency in the Data Structures Course Dan Grossman, Ruth E. Anderson. SIGCSE 2012: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, NC, USA. February 2012.
• Deciding to Major in Computer Science: A Grounded Theory of Students’ Self-Assessment of Ability Colleen M. Lewis, Ken Yasuhara, Ruth E. Anderson. International Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER’11), Providence, RI, USA, August 2011.
• Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Multidisciplinary Capstone Sequence Ruth E. Anderson, Beth Kolko. 118th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2011.
• An Approach to Integrating ICTD Projects into an Undergraduate Curriculum Richard J. Anderson, Ruth E. Anderson, Gaetano Borriello, and Joyojeet Pal. SIGCSE 2010: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, USA. March 2010.
• Capstone Projects as Community Connectors Ruth E. Anderson, Gaetano Borriello, Hélène Martin, and Leonard Black. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges- Northwestern Conference (CCSC-NW), Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA , USA. October 2009.
• Games-Themed Programming Assignments: The Faculty Perspective Kelvin Sung, Michael Panitz, Scott Wallace, Ruth Anderson, and John Nordlinger. SIGCSE 2008: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 300-304, Portland, OR, USA. March 2008
• Assessing Game-Themed Programming Assignments for CS1/2 Courses Kelvin Sung, Michael Panitz, Rebecca Rosenberg, and Ruth Anderson. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE’08), February 2008.
• Using Edit Distance to Analyze Card Sorts Katherine Deibel, Richard Anderson, and Ruth Anderson. Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks, Volume 22, No. 3, pp. 129–138 (July 2005).
• A Multi-Institutional Investigation of Computer Science Seniors’ Knowledge of Programming Concepts Laurie Murphy, Renee McCauley, Suzanne Westbrook, et al. SIGCSE 2005: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 510–514, St. Louis, MO, USA. February 2005.
• Work in Progress: Re-examining Closed Laboratories in Computer Science Courses Thomas B. Horton, Ruth E. Anderson, and Christopher W. Milner. Proceedings of 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2004), Savannah, GA, USA. October 2004.
• "My Criterion is: Is it a Boolean?": A card-sort elicitation of students' knowledge of programming constructs Marian Petre, Sally Fincher, Josh Tenenberg, et al. Technical Report 6-03, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK. June 2003.

Information and Communication Technology for Development

• Promoting Behavior Change Through Community-Generated Digital Video Jarman Hauser, Robert Racadio, William Wynn, Beth Kolko, Richard Anderson, and Ruth Anderson. In The 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC '12), Seattle, WA, USA. October 2012.
• The Midwife’s Assistant: Designing Integrated Learning Tools to Scaffold Ultrasound Practice Alexis Hope, Waylon Brunette, Wayne Gerard, Jacqueline Keh, Laura Schlenke, Ruth Anderson, Michael Kawooya, Rob Nathan , Beth Kolko. The 5th International ACM Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2012), Atlanta, GA, USA. March 2012.
• Reducing Maternal Mortality: An Ultrasound System for Village Midwives Waylon Brunette, Matthew Hicks, Alexis Hope, Ginger Ruddy, Ruth E. Anderson, Beth Kolko. The 1st IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2011(GHTC 2011), Seattle, WA, USA. November 2011.
• Portable Antenatal Ultrasound Platform for Village Midwives Waylon Brunette, Wayne Gerard, Matthew A. Hicks, Alexis Hope, Mitchell Ishimitsu, Pratik Prasad, Ruth E. Anderson, Gaetano Borriello, Beth E. Kolko, Robert Nathan. The 1st Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV 2010), London, UK. December 2010.
• Experiences with a Transportation Information System that Uses Only GPS and SMS Ruth E. Anderson, Waylon Brunette, Erica Johnson, Caitlin Lustig, Anthony Poon, Cynthia Putnam, Odina Salihbaeva, Beth E. Kolko, Gaetano Borriello. The 4th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2010), London, UK. December 2010.
• Building a Transportation Information System Using Only GPS and Basic SMS Infrastructure Ruth E. Anderson, Anthony Poon, Caitlin Lustig, Waylon Brunette, Gaetano Borriello, and Beth E. Kolko. The 3rd International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009), Doha, Qatar. April 2009.

Educational Technology

• Collaborative Technologies in International Distance Education Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Mansoor Pervaiz, Umar Saif, and Fred Videon. The 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2009), Santiago, Chile. April 2009.
• Classroom Presenter: Enhancing Interactive Education with Digital Ink Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Peter Davis, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince, Valentin Razmov, and Fred Videon. IEEE Computer, Volume 40, No. 9, pp. 56-61 (September 2007).
• Supporting Active Learning and Example Based Instruction with Classroom Technology Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, K. M. Davis, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and Valentin Razmov. SIGCSE 2007: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 69-73, Covington, KY, USA. March 2007.
• Use of Classroom Presenter in Engineering Courses Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Luke McDowell, and Beth Simon. Proceedings of 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2005), Indianapolis, IN, USA. October 2005.
• Preliminary Experiences with a Tablet PC Based System to Support Active Learning in Computer Science Courses Beth Simon, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, and Jonathan Su. ITiCSE 2004: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pp. 213–217, Leeds, UK. June 2004.
• A Study of Digital Ink in Lecture Presentation Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, and Steven A. Wolfman. Long Paper, CHI 2004: Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 567–574, Vienna, Austria. April 2004.
• Experiences with a Tablet PC Based Lecture Presentation System in Computer Science Courses Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Beth Simon, Steven A. Wolfman, Tammy VanDeGrift, and Ken Yasuhara. SIGCSE 2004: Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 56–60, Norfolk, VA, USA. March 2004.
• Promoting Interaction in Large Classes with Computer-Mediated Feedback Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Tammy VanDeGrift, Steven A. Wolfman, and Ken Yasuhara.. Short Paper, CSCL 2003: Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, pp. 119–123, Bergen, Norway. June 2003.
• Interaction Patterns with a Classroom Feedback System: Making Time for Feedback Richard J. Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Tammy VanDeGrift, Steven A. Wolfman, and Ken Yasuhara. Interactive Poster, CHI 2003: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA. April 2003.