Dan Garcia

Lecturer SOE

Research Areas

• Education (EDUC)
• Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction (GHCI)
• Computational Game Theory

Research Centers

• Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• Self-paced CS ( 3S, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E, 9F, 9G, 9H, 47A, 47B, 47C), C10 Hearst A
• CS 61C. Machine Structures, M W F 3:00-4:00P, 2050 VLSB
• CS 98-1. Macintosh Student Developers for OS X, TH 5:00-7:00P, 320 Soda
• CS 98-2. GamesCrafters, W 5:00-8:00P, 606 Soda
• CS 98-3. UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group (UCBUGG), TH 5:00-7:00P, 310 Soda
• CS 198-1. Macintosh Student Developers for OS X, TH 5:00-7:00P, 320 Soda
• CS 198-2. GamesCrafters, W 5:00-8:00P, 606 Soda
• CS 198-3. UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group (UCBUGG), TH 5:00-7:00P, 310 Soda
• CS 301. Teaching Techniques, F 11:30-1:00P, 320 Soda

Biography

He received dual B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT, 1990, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, 1995 and 2000 respectively. He joined the faculty in the Fall of 2000, won the departmental Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002, the departmental Information Technology Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2004, and was chosen as a UC Berkeley "Unsung Hero" in 2005. He has taught (or co-taught as a GSI, where he won both departmental and campus outstanding GSI awards) courses in teaching techniques, computer graphics, virtual reality, computer animation, self-paced programming as well as the lower-division introductory curriculum. He is active in SIGCSE and is a member of the ACM Education Board.

He is currently mentoring over seventy undergraduates spread across four groups he founded in 2001 centered around his research and development interests in computer graphics, Macintosh OS X programming, combinatorial game theory and computer science education.

Selected Publications

• D. Garcia, "One size fits all?! One size fits none! A custom computer science education proposal (Foundational White Paper)," in Proc. NSF Integrative Computing Education & Research Western Region (ICER 2006), 2006, pp. 2 pg.
• D. Ginat, R. Anderson, D. Garcia, and R. Rasala, "Randomness and probability in the early CS courses," in Proc. of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '05), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005, pp. 556-557.
• G. Ginat, O. Astrachan, D. Garcia, and M. Guzdial, ""But it looks right!": The bugs students don't see," in Proc. of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symp. on Computer Science Education, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 284-285.
• A. Begel, D. Garcia, and S. A. Wolfman, "Kinesthetic learning in the classroom," in Proc. of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symp. on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '04), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2004, pp. 183-184.
• D. Garcia, D. Ginat, and P. Henderson, "Everything you always wanted to know about game theory (But were afraid to ask)," in Proc. of the 34th SIGCSE Technical Symp. on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '03), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2003, pp. 96-97.
• B. A. Barsky, A. W. Bargteil, D. Garcia, and S. A. Klein, "Introducing vision-realistic rendering," in Rendering Techniques 2002: Proc. 13th Eurographics Rendering Workshop, P. Debevec and S. Gibson, Eds., Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association, 2002, pp. 1-7.
• N. Parlante, D. Reed, D. Garcia, J. K. Estell, D. Levine, and J. Zelenski, "Nifty assignments," in Proc. 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '02), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2002, pp. 319-320.
• D. Ginat, D. Garcia, O. Astrachan, and J. Bergin, "Colorful illustrations of algorithmic design techniques and problem solving," in Proc. of the 32nd SIGCSE Technical Symp. on Computer Science Education, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2001, pp. 425-426.
• S. A. Klein and D. Garcia, "Line of sight and alternative representations of aberrations of the eye," J. Refractive Surgery, vol. 16, pp. S630-S635, Sep. 2000.
• B. A. Barsky, B. P. Chen, A. C. Berg, M. Moutet, D. Garcia, and S. A. Klein, "Incorporating camera models, ocular models, and actual patient eye data for photo-realistic and vision-realistic rendering," in Proc. 5th Intl. Conf. on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, Abstract, 2000.
• S. A. Klein, D. Garcia, and B. A. Barsky, "Problems with representing wavefront aberrations, and solutions," Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. S105, March 2000.
• B. A. Barsky, S. A. Klein, and D. Garcia, "Gaussian power with cylinder vector field representation for corneal topography maps," Optometry and Vision Science, vol. 74, no. 11, pp. 917-925, Nov. 1997.
• D. Garcia, "GAMESMAN: A Finite, Two-Person, Perfect-Information Game Generator," University of California, Berkeley, May 1995.