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.[1] He was influential in promoting a new approach to teaching scientific programming to beginning science and engineering students.