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. Her other books and book chapters are about analysis of algorithms, parallel algorithms, and VAX assembly language. She has written several entries on computer-related topics for the Dictionary of Modern Thought.
Dr. Baase earned her doctorate at UC Berkeley and later spent two years there as a Visiting Professor of Computer Science. She earned her B.A., magna cum laude, with honors in mathematics, at New York University.
She served on the College Board's committee to develop the Advanced Placement program in Computer Science.
Dr. Baase decided to be a teacher when she was in second grade. She has always found teaching, in the classroom and through her books, to be a deeply satisfying profession. Her other interests include hiking, birding, and rare book collecting.
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