Lillian (Boots) Cassel, Professor of Computer Science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, United States, was interviewed for the Computing Educators Oral History Project (ceohp.org) in March, 2009. This video snippet was recorded a year later. Here, Dr. Cassel describes the transformative experience of attending a SIGCSE Technical Syposium for the first time, at a time when she was struggling to establish a new computing curriculum in the computer science department at her university (a different institution than where she is now).
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