Alfred C Thompson II
Educator, Author, Speaker, Software Developer
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One of the outstanding people in computer science in education is Mitch Resnick from the MIT Media Lab. I took a workshop with him about Scratch a number of years ago. This picture is from our meeting at the 2026 CSTA Annual Conference. Mitch is the person behind Scratch
and Octostudio. I was able to talk to Mitch for a bit before the exhibit hall opened. We share a lot of ideas.
At the 2012 FIRST World Championship event I had the chance to discuss FIRST, the Kinect sensor and other innovations with Woody Flowers the amazing professor from MIT who helped create the FIRST program.
Rob Miles is an outstanding lecturer from the University of Hull in the UK. I am a big fan of his books and his blog. After knowing each other online for years we met in person at the World wide finals of the Imagine Cup in New York in 2011.
I've been a big supporter of FIRST Robotics for years. I've done a lot to help build the relationship between FIRST and Microsoft. In this picture Iam talking with Dean Kamen about that relationship at the 2011 CS & IT Conference. The woman on my left is Suzi Levine, then with Microsoft and later the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
When the Kinect sensor was first out I was asked to do a talk on how it works at Boston's famous Museum of Science. It was recorded and museum staff gave the presntation themselves several times after that.
