Mordechai Ben-Ari

Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari
מרדכי (מוטי) בן-ארי
Nationality	Israeli
Known for	Textbooks in computer science, development of educational software tools, research in computer science education
Awards	ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, ACM Distinguished Educator, ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science education
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science

Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari (Hebrew: מרדכי (מוטי) בן-ארי) is a professor emeritus of computer science education at the Weizmann Institute of Science.^[1]

Ben-Ari has published numerous textbooks in computer science,^[2][3][4] developed software tools for teaching computer science, and written influential papers^[5][6] in computer science education.^[7] His primary focus has been on books and tools for learning theoretical concepts in computer science and mathematics, such as concurrency^[8] and mathematical logic.^[9]

In collaboration with the University of Joensuu (now part of the University of Eastern Finland) his group developed the Jeliot program^[10] animation system for teaching elementary computer science and programming.

He has collaborated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on educational robotics using the Thymio robot.

Ben-Ari has published two books under the Springer Open Access program:

• Elements of Robotics with Francesco Mondada.^[11]
• Mathematical Surprises.^[12]

Ben-Ari received ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions for Computer Science Education in 2004, was named an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2009 and received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award in 2019.

References

1. Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari personal webpage
2. Ben-Ari, M. (2009). Ada for Software Engineers: Second Edition with Ada 2005. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-84882-313-6.
3. Ben-Ari, M. (2005). Just A Theory: Exploring The Nature Of Science. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-285-5.
4. Ben-Ari, M. (1996). Understanding programming languages. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-95846-8.
5. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Mordechai+Ben-Ari Mordechai Ben-Ari in Google Scholar
6. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Ben=Ari:Mordechai.html Mordechai Ben-Air in DBLP
7. Ben-Ari, M. (1998). "Constructivism in computer science education". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 30: 257–261. doi:10.1145/274790.274308.
8. Ben-Ari, M. (2006). Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming. Boston: Addison-Wesley (Second Edition). ISBN 978-0-321-31283-9.
9. Ben-Ari, M. (2012). Mathematical Logic for Computer Science (Third ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4471-4128-0.
10. Ben-Ari, M.; Bednarik, R.; Ben-Bassat Levy, R.; Ebel, G.; Moreno, A.; Myller, N.; Sutinen, E. (2011). "A decade of research and development on program animation: The Jeliot experience". Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 22 (5): 375–384. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.04.004.
11. Ben-Ari, M.; Mondada, F. (2018). Elements of Robotics. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62533-1. ISBN 978-3-319-62533-1. S2CID 4704728.
12. Ben-Ari, M. (2022). Mathematical Surprises. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13566-8. ISBN 978-3-031-13566-8.

External links

• Jeliot Program Animation System.
• Repositories of pedagogical software and learning materials on GitHub.