Shimon Schocken

Professor Shimon Schocken has established himself as a transformative figure in computer science education, serving as the IDB Professor of Information Technologies and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya. After spending a decade at NYU, he returned to Israel to help establish IDC Herzliya, Israel's first private, non-profit university. His most significant contribution to computer science education came in 2005 when he collaborated with Noam Nisan to develop an innovative approach to teaching computer science, documented in their influential MIT Press book "The Elements of Computing Systems