Gerhard Fischer (professor)

Gerhard Fischer (born July 2, 1945) is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the founder and director of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Education
In 1971, Fischer graduated with a Master in Mathematics and Physical Education from the University of Heidelberg. With a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he spent the following two years at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the University of California, Irvine. He obtained a PhD from the University of Hamburg in Computer Science (1977), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, Cambridge (working with Seymour Papert and the LOGO community ) and Xerox Parc (working with Alan Kay and the Smalltalk community).

Awards and honors

 * Inducted into the SIGCHI Academy in 2007 for introducing visionary, long-lasting research themes to CHI by creatively combining European and American research traditions
 * Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  in 2009 for “contributions to human-computer interaction and computer-mediated lifelong learning.”
 * Awarded the RIGO Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in 2012 for research on new conceptual frameworks and new media
 * Appointed “honorary doctor” at the IT Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2015