We are deeply saddened to hear of Brett Becker‘s tragic passing. Brett has been a regular speaker, supporter and attendee at SIGCSE journal club since we started in 2020 and we’ve have often discussed Brett’s papers at SIGCSE journal club. We’d planned to discuss another one of Brett’s papers at our October meetup but we’ve postponed that to a later date, in light of his passing.

Brett was an accomplished researcher and active member of the international computing education research community.  Among his many professional activities and accomplishments, Brett was influential in the sigcse.org community in Europe, America and beyond where he served as vice chair.  He also served as program co-chair at the inaugural ukicer.com conference in 2019, and again in 2022, and served on the UKICER steering committee.  He helped to ensure Ireland was a cornerstone of UKICER, and also co-founded sigcseire.acm.org, the SIGCSE Ireland chapter.  He was an energetic and astute proponent of computing education in Ireland and globally, always a pleasure to work with, and he will be greatly missed.

Plans to honor and remember Brett will be distributed to the SIGCSE-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG mailing list in due course, this is an open list that anyone can subscribe to.