How strong is CS at Harvard?
gibby
August 23, 2015, 1:59am
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Really, you have to ask?
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/ballmers-big-harvard-gift-will-fund-12-new-computer-science-professors/
“Right now I think everybody would agree that MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon are the top places [for computer science],” Ballmer told the Crimson, noting that some would also include UC Berkeley. “I want Harvard on that list.”
Also see:http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/gift-from-ballmer-will-expand-computer-science-faculty-at-harvard/
Harvard University counts two of the most successful computer programmers in the world — William H. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive — as former students. But the university, one of the most respected overall in the world, has never quite made its way into the elite tier of computer science programs.
Now another famous Harvard alum from the technology industry, Steven A. Ballmer, wants to change that.
Mr. Ballmer, the former Microsoft chief executive, will make a financial contribution to Harvard that will enable the school to expand its computer science faculty by about 50 percent.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-so-many-harvard-students-take-computer-science-2014-9
https://www.class-central.com/report/review-david-malan-cs50-introduction-to-cs/
David Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University. His areas of research include (among others) distance learning, collaborative learning and computer-assisted instruction. At the risk of stating a cliché, his approach to teaching is unlike anything I have seen and can easily be labeled as revolutionary. One can detect the joy and effort he puts into each of his lectures.
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/12/15/computer-science-at-harvard-inside-the-school-of-engineering-and-applied-sciences/
Over the summer, Malan started chatting with Yale’s Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum about how the conventionally competing universities could collaborate. The idea grew out of that, and now Harvard and Yale are “teaming up to provide a way for students on both campuses to get something that was more than the sum of their parts,” said Brian Scassellati, who will be leading CS50 at Yale.
Also see: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=College+Confidential+stanford+vs+Haravrd+computer+scinece&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=College+Confidential+stanford+vs+Harvard+computer+science+site:talk.collegeconfidential.com&safe=off
@gibby Hello. I am very interested in Harvard CS as well and your posts throughout this site have inspired me to do further research on the department. If you had to take a guess, when would you say new Harvard undergrads would be able to take advantage of the new Allston campus? I assume it won’t be completed for several years but perhaps I’m wrong.
gibby
August 23, 2015, 11:33pm
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http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/03/a-new-era-in-allston
As early as next year (2016), pending necessary approvals and barring unexpected complications, Harvard could begin construction of a new 500,000- to 600,000-square-foot complex that will house two-thirds of the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), relocated from Cambridge.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/22/seas-allston-2019-computer-science/
Computer science, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering are the three undergraduate teaching areas at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences whose faculty and facilities are slated to move to Allston in 2019, members of the school’s leadership said this week.
Thank you for that info. I’m surprised to see that moving that fast.
Harvard undergrad CS is already strong although it may not look like an engineering school and have such a broad strengths in the grad dept. But after MIT (117), the undergrad college that most professors at top 50 CS universities are from is Harvard (66), then Cornell (46) and Berkeley (43).