ABOUT US

HISTORY

David Arnow and Gerald Weiss founded Turing's Craft in 1999. Both Arnow and Weiss are professors of Computer and Information Science at the City University of New York. In that academic context, Arnow had developed the WebToTeach system to address the limited opportunities for computer science students to practice the concepts taught in the classroom.

Since 1990, thousands of students in several institutions have used the early academic versions of WebToTeach. The system was so successful and revolutionary that Arnow, joined by Weiss, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to further develop the technology and apply it to reducing the attrition rate of computer science beginners.

Responding to broad user interest and with the NSF's encouragement, the two started Turing's Craft in early 1999 to commercialize the WebToTeach technology and thereby make it broadly available. In June 2000, Turing's Craft received a technology commercialization grant from the Empire State Development fund in recognition of the outstanding potential of the technology. In the spring of 2002, Turing's Craft released the commercial version of WebToTeach, CodeLab.

 
 
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David Arnow, Co-Founder/President

David has extensive experience building distributed computing systems and has published academic papers about them in prominent computer science journals. In 1990, he co-founded New Core Press, a small publisher of academic texts in computer science.

 
 
 
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Gerald Weiss, Co-Founder/Vice-President

Gerald has over twenty years of in-depth experience as an expert in object-oriented software development, business systems, and compiler design and implementation. He has, for example, written commercial Pascal compilers and VB-to-C++ translators.