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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 15:49:55 -0500
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From: cynthia@media.mit.edu
Subject: resume

Hi  Richard:
Here is my resume.  I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
thanks.
-Cynthia


Cynthia Solomon

80 Ellery Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 547-5297


Education
Harvard University,  Ed. D. Graduate School of Education, 1985
Boston University, M.A., Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, 1976
Radcliffe College, B.A., History, 1959


Work Experience in Research

NASA Classroom of the Future, Director of Educational Technologies,
Wheeling, WV, 1992-3.  Managed multimedia software development group
producing pre-college educational products for NASA's Education Branch.

Consulted for industry on human-computer interface issues, 1986-91.
Amongst others, clients were:
Apple Computer, Vivarium Project, Los Angeles, CA and Cambridge, MA.
Associative Design Technology, Westboro, MA.
GigaMos Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Gold Hill Computers, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Microelectronics  and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, TX.
Software Tool & Die, Brookline, MA.

Touchstone Engineering Corp, Executive Vice President/Founder, Somerville,
MA, 1985-86. Designed management planning system.

Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory, Director, Cambridge, MA, 1982-84.  Set
research agenda for 35-person lab and managed multi- million dollar  budget
.

Logo Computer Systems, Inc, Vice President, Research & Development/Founder,
Boston, MA, 1980-82.  Managed  Apple Logo product development  and was
technical contributor.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Research Staff, Cambridge, MA, 1970-75.  Conducted research on
teaching/learning styles and debugging strategies in computer environments.

Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc., Research Staff, Education Technology
Group,  Cambridge, MA, 1965-70.  Built instructional system for Harvard
Medical School students.  Began Logo research.


Work Experience in Teaching

CHI '94, Boston, MA, April 1994.  Taught tutorial on Designing Computer
Environments for Children.

Multimedia '93, Anaheim, CA, 1993.   Taught course entitled Designing
Multimedia Environments for Children.

Louisiana State University, College of Education, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Baton Rouge, LA.  Departments of Administrative & Foundational
Services and  Curriculum &  Instruction, 1991-92.

Boston University, Teaching Fellow in Computer Science, Boston, Ma.
Department of Mathematics, 1975-76.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Logo Group, Cambridge, MA, 1970-75.  Taught educational computing courses
and workshops  to K-12 students and teachers.

Second International Conference on Mathematics Education.  Designed and
taught three-week workshop on Logo for 10-12 year olds, 1972.

Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.  Created and taught first Logo programming
course, 1968-69.


Grants, Awards, Honors

Interactive Media Festival, Nominator.  To be held June 7, 1994.
Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, equipment grant, 1992.
MIT Logo Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, research grant, 1977-78.


Publications

Books

Computer Environments for Children:  A Reflection on Theories of Learning
and Education, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma., 1986.

LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo, edited with Margaret Minsky and
Brian Harvey, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1986.

Introduction to Programming through Turtle Graphics, Apple Logo, Logo
Computer Systems, Inc., Quebec, Canada, 1981.


Papers

"Teachers and the Logo Computer Culture," Proceedings,  National Logo
Conference,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma., 99-101,
1986.

"Adding Numbers," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo, edited with
Margaret Minsky and Brian Harvey, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York,  256-267,
1986.

"Boxgame," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo,  133-140, 1986.

"Demons, Turtle Collisions, and Other Events," (with M. Grandfield),
LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo, 376-380, 1986.

"Math:  A Sentence Generator," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo,
39-45, 1986.

"Sengen:  A Sentence Generator," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo,
1-6, 1986.

"Turtle Graphics," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo, 362-366, 1986.

"Turtles and Their Shapes," LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo,
366-371, 1986.

"Computer Environments for Children as Reflections of Theories of Learning
and Education," Thesis, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education,
1985.

"Logo:  Past and Future," National Logo Conference, Preproceedings, MIT,
June 1984.

"Introducing Logo to Children," Byte, 7, #8, 196-208, August 1982.

"Computers and Education:  Conceptual Underpinnings of Uses of Computers in
Education," Thesis Proposal, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Education, January 1981.

"Conceputal Underpinnings of Uses of Computers in Education, " Qualifying
Paper, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, September 1980.

"Language in the Logo Computer Culture, "Proc. National Educational
Computing Conf., University of Iowa, Iowa City, June 25-27, 1979.

"Teaching Young Children to Program in a Logo Turtle Computer Culture," ACM
SIGCUE Bulletin, 20-29, August 1978.

"Teaching the Computer to Add:  An Example of Problem-solving in an
Anthropomorphic Computer Culture," MIT AI Memo #41, December 1976.

"A Case Study of a Young Child Doing Turtle Graphics in Logo," Proc.
National Computer Conference, June 1976.

"Problem Solving in an Anthropomorphic Computer Culture," Thesis, Boston
University, May 1976.

"Leading a Child to a Computer Culture," Proc. ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE Joint
Symposium, SIGCSE Bulletin 8, 1/SIGCUE TOPICS 2, February 1976.

"Comments and Advice on Introducing Kids to Turtles and Logo," Logo Working
Paper #42, 1975.

"A First Lesson," co-authored with S. Papert, Logo Working Paper #26,
October 30, 1974.

"Twenty Things to Do with a Computer," co-authored with Seymour Papert,
Educational Technology, XII, 4, April 1972; Japanese translation, BIT, 5,
4, 320-325, 1973.

"Dividing the Swan," Logo Working Paper #12, MIT AI Lab., Cambridge, Ma.,
July 1972.

"NIM:  A Game-Playing Program ," co-authored with Seymour Papert, Logo Memo
#5 and MIT AI Memo #254, January 1970.  In H. Abelson, Apple Logo, 1982.

"Conceptual Advances Derived from the Muzzey Experiment," co-authored with
Seymour Papert, unpublished paper, 1969.


Videotapes

Research in Review, videotape on the Atari Cambridge Research Lab., 1984.
Produced 25-minute videotape on the laboratory's activities.

Atari Logo, videotape of children.1983.


Selected  Presentations
Doing Science Using Multimedia, Second Technology  in Education Conference
at Louisiana State Univeristy sponsored by Apple Computer,  May 12, 1993.

"Is It Art or Is It Magic?",  panel chair and organizer, Tenth
International Conference on Technology and Education ,  MIT, Cambridge, MA,
March 25, 1993.

"Programming Projects in Elementary Mathematics" presented with Margaret
Minsky and "Computer Environments and Children," Second West Coast Logo and
Telecommunications Conference, Los Angeles, Ca., 1987.

"Teachers and the Logo Computer Culture," and "Data Representations in Real
Logo Projects," presented with M. Minsky, National Logo Conference, MIT,
Cambridge, Ma.,1986.

"Creating Computer Environments for Children" and "Discussing Logo
Projects," First West Coast Logo Conference,  Pepperdine University, Los
Angeles, Ca., 1985.

"Logo:  and Other Computer Environments for Children," Second British Logo
Users' Group Conference, 1984.

"Logo:  Past and Future" and Panel Chair for  Extending Logo session,
National Logo Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1984.

"Current Research on Computer Learning Environments" and "Turtle geometry
projects in Atari Logo," First British Logo Users' Group Conference, 1983.

"Teaching  Children in a Logo Computer Cultures," Computers and Education
Conference, New York Academy of Science,  New York, 1981.

Professional Associations, Membership

American Educational Research Association
Association for Computing Machinery
Boston Computer Society
International Society for Technology in Education
SIGGRAPH
SIGCHI