Boots Cassel interview: Overview

On a separate page: Selected quotes from this interview

Brief background

Lillian (Boots) Cassel has been on the faculty of the Computing Sciences Department at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA since 1987. She has been a leader in computer science accreditation and has led a number of projects designed to support computing education faculty and students, such as an ontology of all topics related to computing and a repository for educational materials for pre-college computer science. She has been very active in the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and SIGCSE, serving in a variety of roles over the course of her career. She received the SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service in 2001, with the citation “Past chair of SIGCSE, and its Technical Symposium, leader in computer science accreditation, tireless advocate for computer science education supporting both faculty and students.”

At the time of this interview, Boots Cassel was a Full Professor at Villanova University.

Other information about Lillian (Boots) Cassel

• Boots Cassel’s professional webpage at Villanova University
• Description of the Computing Ontology Project, for which Boots Cassel is chair
• The CITADEL project (Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library), for which Boots Cassel has been a driving force (via the Wayback Machine)
• ACM Digital Library Author Profile Page for Boots Cassel
• DBLP publications list for Lillian (Boots) Cassel
• Google Scholar profile for LIllian Cassel

Video clip: First experience at SIGCSE

• Recorded March 2010
• About 4 minutes 35 seconds; PDF transcript of video clip is located further down under the video
• This video clip is also available on CEOHP’s YouTube channel