Gary Greenberg
Director, The Collaboratory Project
Executive Director, IT Teaching and Research Initiatives
Information Technology, Northwestern University
Gary Greenberg is Executive Director of IT Teaching and Research Initiatives
at Northwestern University. He works on special projects to develop opportunities
for using information technology to enhance instruction and research at the
University. He leads committees and task forces that review technology needs
and make recommendations for technology implementation and deployment. Recent
projects have focused on digital media infrastructure, social science research
computing, and distance learning. He is also director of the Collaboratory
Project, a technology outreach initiative that helps education, cultural and
nonprofit organizations use Internet technologies to advance education. The
Collaboratory is Web-based collaborative environment that teachers use to
develop innovative, project-based activities in a framework for engaged learning
that are aligned to learning standards.
Gary received his B.A. and M.A. in Music from Stanford University, where
he began to work in Computer Music, and received his Ph.D. in Composition
from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was a Research Assistant at
MIT in the LOGO Children's Learning Laboratory and the Division for Study
and Research in Education. He taught in the Music Department at Yale University
and in the Creative Arts Education Program of the Graduate School of Education
at Rutgers University where he directed the Computing Learning Resource Center.
At Rutgers, he worked with public school teachers learning to use computers
and develop activities to integrate the computer into the curriculum. He came
to Northwestern University in 1985 to teach in the School of Music where he
developed an object-oriented compositional programming environment that he
used to teach computer music composition, music theory, and a creative arts
approach to computer programming. At Northwestern he became Manager of the
ACNS Advanced Technology Group, which worked with faculty to develop ways
of using emerging technologies in instruction and research.
