Jill H. Larkin

Jill H. Larkin (born July 15, 1943) is an American cognitive scientist, science educator and Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University[1] known for her work on information representations.[2][3]

Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Larkin obtained her BA in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1965, her MA in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, and her PhD in Science and Mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.[4]

Larkin started her career as High school teacher in mathematics in the year 1965–1966 at the Milton Academy at Milton, Massachusetts, and at the Tefari Mekonen School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the years 1966–1968, where she chaired the mathematics department the second year. After her PhD graduation she was appointed Assistant research physicist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978 she moved to the Carnegie–Mellon University, where she became Research Associate in its Psychology Department.[4]

Larkin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1986 in the field of computer science.

Selected publications

Articles, a selection:[5]

References

  1. Analyzing William C. Martin, Godfrey Franklin (1998). Multicultural Teaching and Learning Styles. p. 36
  2. Baeza-Yates, Ricardo, and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. "Modern information retrieval." Vol. 463. New York: ACM press, 1999.
  3. Ware, Colin. Information visualization: perception for design. Elsevier, 2012.
  4. 1 2 CURRICULUM VITAE: Jill H. Larkin, 1978. Accessed 12-04-2015.
  5. Jill H. Larkin's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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