Eric Roberts is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1980, and subsequently taught at Wellesley College, where he chaired the Computer Science Department. Eric joined the Stanford faculty in 1990. While at Stanford, he has received several teaching awards, including the Bing Fellowship, the Dinkelspiel Award, and the Gunn University Fellowship. Eric received the 2003 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education at the annual SIGCSE symposium, where he delivered the opening keynote on "Expanding the Audience for Computer Science." He is also the principal architect of Stanford's introductory computer science courses and the author of three computer science textbooks. From 1998 to 2001, Eric served as co-chair of the Computing Curricula 2001 task force.