Sara Baase is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at San Diego State University. She has won three Outstanding Faculty awards.
Her textbooks in computer science have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, and Korean. Her newest book is the fourth edition of A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology (Prentice Hall, 2013).
Dr. Baase earned her doctorate in Mathematics at UC Berkeley and later spent two years there as a Visiting Professor of Computer Science. She served on the College Board's committee to develop the Advanced Placement program in Computer Science.
Her other interests include hiking, birding, and rare book collecting.
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