Mark Allen Weiss

Mark Allen Weiss is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Interim Vice Dean in the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University. He is most well-known for his sole-authored textbooks, which are among the most-widely used in computer science. Beginning in the late 1990s, Weiss was part of the Advanced Placement (AP) CS Development Committee that designed the AP curriculum and wrote the AP exams taken by US high school students. In recent years he served as an elected member of the ACM SIGCSE Board, co-led an NSF-funded project to outline a 15-year agenda for CS Education research to assist NSF in setting its research priorities, and is working on Broadening Participation in Computing in South Florida. Dr. Weiss is an AAAS Fellow and IEEE Fellow, and the recipient several awards including the 2015 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education, the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award, and the 2021 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.