Hennessy has had a storied career at Stanford, starting at the tender age of 25 as an electrical engineering and computer science professor. Just days ago he was awarded the Turing Award, also known as the Nobel Prize of computer science. You've got to have something which really begins to understand how students are struggling, what they don't understand, what they do understand. How does building adaptive learning opportunities fit into your thinking for the new scholars program? One of the key motivations behind building Knight-Hennessy was we thought there really is a leadership void around the world.
Source: Forbes March 23, 2018 18:06 UTC