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Richard E. Pattis
OccupationProfessor
AwardsACM Distinguished Member

Richard Eric Pattis is an American professor emeritus [1] at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he taught introductory programming and data structures.[2]

He is the author of the Karel programming language, and published Karel the Robot: A gentle introduction to the art of programming.[3][4]

Pattis has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University.

He has moved back to Pittsburgh where he is a special faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, advising CS undergraduates.

In 2011, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Member.[5]

References

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  1. "Richard Pattis".
  2. "Faculty profile: Richard E Pattis". Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. Mace, Scott (6 September 1982). "Cybertronics releases low-cost logo for Apple II". InfoWorld. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  4. Michael Nicita, Ronald Petrusha, Michael; Ronald Petrusha (1984). The reader's guide to microcomputer books. Golden-Lee. p. 151.
  5. Virginia Gold. "ACM Names 54 Distinguished Members for Contributions to Computing". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
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