Education
Wesleyan University; Cornell University.
Wesleyan University; Cornell University.
She had several best paper and an impact paper award mentioned below under awards. She took the lead for an National Science Foundation ITWF Grant 0420343 that was a collaboration between eight schools doing PLTLCS, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Horwitz, Duke University, Georgia Technical, Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Purdue University, Beloit College, and Loyola College. They published a paper in 2009 that showed that active recruiting combined with peer-led team learning is an effective approach to attracting and retaining under-represented students in an introductory Computer Science class.
She was also noted for her leadership in computing in high schools.
Horwitz received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1977, a Master of Surgery in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1982 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1985. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as an assistant professor in 1985.
She was promoted to associate professor in 1991, and to professor in 1996. She was associate chair from 2004 to 2007.
She became an emeritus professor in 2014.
Horwitz died on June 11, 2014, aged 59, from stomach cancer.
She was a member of the Educational Testing Services Advanced Placement Computer Science Test Development Committee for ten years from 1987 to 1997, including chairing the committee for five years from 1992 to 1997 at a time when the programming language for the exam changed from Pascal to C++.