Gerry Stahl

Gerry Stahl is an American computer scientist specializing in computer-supported collaborative learning. He is professor emeritus of computing and informatics at Drexel University, and was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

Education and career Stahl studied philosophy and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1967. While supporting himself with work as a systems programmer, he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Northwestern University in 1975, with a dissertation on the philosophy of Heidegger and Marx. After returning to graduate study at the University of Colorado Boulder, he completed a second Ph.D. in computer science there in 1993. He retired as professor emeritus in 2014.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, an official journal of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, which published its first issue in 2006. He stepped down as editor-in-chief in 2016.

Books Stahl is the author of books including: Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (MIT Press, 2006) Studying Virtual Math Teams (Springer, 2009) Translating Euclid: Designing a Human-Centered Mathematics (Morgan & Claypool, 2013) Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together: The Development of Mathematical Group Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2016) Theoretical Investigations: Philosophical Foundations of Group Cognition (Springer, 2021)