Joseph Zachary
Joseph L. Zachary | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Utah (1987-present) |
| Thesis | A Framework for Incorporating Abstraction Mechanisms into the Logic Programming Paradigm (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Guttag |
Joseph "Joe" Lawrence Zachary is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his work in computer science education as a charter member of the United States Department of Energy Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) Project, an education initiative to improve the undergraduate science and engineering curriculum through computation. He was influential in promoting a new approach to teaching scientific programming to beginning science and engineering students.