Dave Pritchard is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT. He possess expertise in science, higher education, teaching, university teaching, research and 21 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Dave Pritchard is a person like no other -- brilliant scientist, expert teacher, compassionate and insightful mentor, and insatiably curious. As his student and business partner, I enjoyed a front-row seat to Dave's seminal contributions to both fundamental atomic physics and in educational technology, including his role as the visionary behind Mastering, the most successful digital courseware product in higher-education Science & Engineering. Every interaction with Prof. Pritchard is an education, every conversation will force you to think and then to broaden your thinking. Dave has a reliable ability to perceive today's trends in education and comprehend their implications that lay 5+ years down the road. An engineer of ideas, Dave absorbs, combines and reshapes the contributions of experts and practitioners around him into a better path forward. He genuinely cares as much about helping the people around him grow as he does about creating the future alongside them. If you work with Dave, you will be challenged to keep up with him and you will find yourself both inspired and well-supported to realize the vision you and he co-create."