Liza Loop (née Straus)[1] is an educational technology pioneer, futurist, technical author, and consultant.
She is notable for her early use of computers in education, her creation of a public-access computer center, consulting work with Atari, Inc., Apple, Radio Shack and others as well as philosophical musings on the future of learning environments from the 1970s on.
[1] In 1975, Loop joined the Homebrew Computer Club and was the first woman to join the club,[2] and founded the LO*OP Center (Learning Options * Open Portal) non-profit organization.
[3] In 1975 LO*OP opened the second public access computer center located outside a museum.
[7] The Liza Loop Papers from 1972 to 1984 (donated in 1986) are housed in Stanford University Libraries' manuscript division and detail the early years of educational computing.