Uri Wilensky - CCL Director
Uri Wilensky is a professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and Complex Systems at Northwestern University. He also holds appointments in Cognitive Science, the program in Technology and Social Behavior and the Segal Design Center research council. He is the founder and current director of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling and a co-founder of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). His NetLogo agent-based modeling software has hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, including scientists from a wide range of disciplines and students from middle school through graduate school. Dr. Wilensky received his PH.D from the MIT Media Lab. He has an abiding interest in the changing content of knowledge in the context of ubiquitous computation, and its implications for making sense of complexity. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, more than 1000 agent-based models across a wide range of content domains, and has received numerous grants including the NSF Career Award.
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Textbook
- Wilensky, U., & Rand, W. (2015). An introduction to agent-based modeling: Modeling natural, social and engineered complex systems with NetLogo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Research Overview
- CCL Papers & Publications
- Executive Editor of International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning
- Co-Chair of AERA's SIG-ATL
- Running Learning Science Colloquium Series
- Mellon Foundation grant in Social Epistemology
- Projects:
- StarLogoT modeling tool
- Participatory Simulations: Network-Based Design for Systems Learning in Classrooms
- NetLogo modeling tool.
- NSF-Funded Research Projects:
- NSF-CISE: Computational Thinking in STEM
- NSF CyberLearning: LevelSpace: Modeling in Levels
- NSF EAGER: A low-cost integrated agent-based modeling and physical computing platform
- NSF CyberLearning: InquirySpace: Technologies in Support of Student Experimentation
- NSF-DRL: Emerging Research-Empirical--Simulated Evolution: Developing a Framework for Computer-Based Modeling and Simulation Activities in the Classroom
- NSF-CE21: Casting a Wide Net: Computational Thinking
- NSF-DRK12: Enabling Modeling and Simulation-based Seience in the classroom: Integrating agent-based models, real world sensing and collaborative networks
- NSF-REC-#0003285: Connected Mathematics: Making Sense of Complex Phenomena through Building Object-Based Parallel Models
- NSF-CNS-#1138461: CT-STEM: Casting a Wide Net: Embedded Computational Thinking
- NSF-DRL-#1020101: ABMPLUS: Enabling Modeling and Simulation-Based Science in the Classroom
- NSF-DRL-#1020101: InquirySpace: Integrating Agent-Based Models with Statistical Analyses
- NSF-DRL-#1109834: BEAGLE: Simulated Evolution
- NSF-DRL-#1109834: Learning Evolution through Model-Based Inquiry
- NSF-Funded Research Projects:
- ABMPLUS: Enabling Modeling and Simulation-Based Science in the Classroom
- BEAGLE: Simulated Evolution
- CT-STEM: Casting a Wide Net: Embedded Computational Thinking
- InquirySpace: Integrating Agent-Based Models with Statistical Analyses
- Integrated Simulation and Modeling Environment
- Learning Evolution through Model-Based Inquiry
- Modeling Across the Curriculum
- NSF Curricular Projects
- ProbLab: Simulation-based curriculum on Probability & Statistics
- The GasLab Project: Simulation-based curriculum on kinetic theory of gases
- ConnectedChemistry: Simulation-based curriculum on introductory Chemistry
- The EACH Project: Understanding the evolution of cooperation
- Connected Poetry
- NAE/Spencer Project -- Developing Reasoning About Parallel Processes
- Constructionist Learning
- The design of Technological tools for thinking and learning: A Constructionist Approach
- Designing and Constructing Models with Multi-Agent Languages
- Images from class poster session
- Complexity Science
- Turtle Geometry
- Practicum in Learning Environment Design
- Advanced Technology Design
- Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
- Mathematics Learning Environments
- Mathematics & Science Learning Environments
- Mathematics Practices
- Intellectual Development
- Learning through Computer-Based Projects
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Passions
- Photos
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- Adventures
- Daniel
- Ethan
- Email: uri@northwestern.edu
- Phone: 847-467-7593
- Fax: 847-491-8999
- Offices: Annenberg Hall 337, Ford Hall 3-221
- CCL Lab Phone: 847-467-7593
- Ford Lab Phone: 847-467-2838
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Contact Info
Uri Wilensky
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL, 60208
