Speaker: Steve Cooper (St. Joseph's U. and NSF) Title: Program Visualization and Alice: Past, Present and a Look into the Future Abstract: A program visualization tool, Alice (www.alice.org), has been used as the basis for the creation of an innovative curriculum for teaching introductory computing courses. In Alice, students build 3-D animated movies and 3-D interactive games as they learn to program. Alice has been used in both traditional four-year institutions and community colleges to increase the comprehension of basic computer science topics of novice programmers.