Gerry Stahl

Gerry Stahl, born March 16, 1945, in Wilmington, Delaware, is an American computer scientist who specializes in computer-supported collaborative learning. He studied philosophy and mathematics at MIT, graduating in 1967, earned a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1975 focused on Heidegger and Marx, and later completed a second PhD in computer science from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1993. He joined Drexel University as an associate professor in 2002, received tenure in 2008, was promoted to full professor in 2012, and retired as professor emeritus in 2014. Stahl founded and served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, an official journal of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, from its first issue in 2006 until 2016. He authored several influential books in the field, including Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge in 2006, Studying Virtual Math Teams in 2009, and Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together in 2016, establishing himself as a leading figure in research on how groups of students learn together using computer support.