Computer Science
SEAS Students Conflicted About Allston Expansion
As the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences prepares to expand into the new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston — which is slated to open in June 2020 — current and prospective SEAS concentrators are largely conflicted about the expansion.
Hack Harvard
Students from various schools, including RSID and MIT, worked on different projects, such as an AI-based app that would send users self-care reminders.
Hundreds of Students Spend Weekend Coding at HackHarvard’s Fifth Annual Hackathon
Hundreds of students from universities representing five continents spent 36 sleepless hours coding over the weekend during the fifth annual HackHarvard, a student-run hackathon held at the Student Organizations Center at Hilles.
Milind Tambe
Milind Tambe, who studies artificial intelligence, joined the Harvard faculty this year after several years teaching at the University of Southern California.
New Computer Science Professor Milind Tambe Aims for Social Impact
Milind Tambe has joined the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Computer Science faculty as a tenured professor this fall and will head the Center for Research on Computation and Society at SEAS.
Harvard Embedded EthiCS Program Receives $150,000 Grant
Embedded EthiCS — an interdisciplinary initiative between the Computer Science and Philosophy departments — will receive a $150,000 grant after being named a winner in the 2019 Responsible Computer Science Challenge last week.
Kennedy School Students Named Winners of Social Security Policy Challenge
A team of six Harvard Kennedy School students won a “hackathon-style” Social Security policy challenge hosted by former Senator Heidi K. Heitkamp (D-ND) and Gary D. Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council for the Trump Administration, at the Institute of Politics Monday evening.
Professor Jelani Nelson’s Departure To Leave 'Big Hole' in Computer Science Department
Jelani Nelson, an associate professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences whose research focuses on designing algorithms to process large, high-dimensional datasets, will leave Harvard after this academic year to join the faculty of UC Berkeley.
Joint CS and Philosophy Initiative, Embedded EthiCS, Triples in Size to 12 Courses
Embedded EthiCS — an interdisciplinary initiative between the Computer Science and Philosophy departments — has expanded to a dozen courses in the Computer Science department this semester and will extend to other disciplines in the near future.
Nada Amin To Join Harvard Computer Science Faculty
Nada Amin will join the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Computer Science faculty this fall as an associate, the school announced Tuesday.
CS100 Seeks to Bridge Tech and Humanities
Unlike CS50, however, basic coding knowledge and an online application were both required to enroll in Malan’s latest offering.
Ahlfors Lecture
Sanjeev Arora, a Princeton University computer science professor, gives a lecture about the theoretical understanding of deep learning in Science Center Hall D.
Margo Seltzer, the 'Soul' of SEAS, Leaves Legacy
In addition to setting firsts herself, Seltzer advocated for other women in the field and worked to improve the confidence of and retention rates for female students in Computer Science.
Margo Seltzer's Teaching Tools
Margo I. Seltzer '83 poses with her computer science teaching tools in her office.
Kennedy School and Bank of America Create Council On Artificial Intelligence
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HKS has partnered with Bank of America to start an initiative to study the societal impacts of artificial intelligence.
College Establishes Fund in Memory of Harvard Senior Alex Patel
The Fund will form a team of students who will serve as supplementary teaching fellows for various department courses and will provide individual tutoring to students.
Harvard Students Bring Hackathon to the Vatican
VHacks, which took place from March 8 to 11, was a joint-effort between Vatican officials, the Catholic think tank Optic, and students from Harvard and MIT.
SEAS Hosts Second-Ever Sophomore Convocation
The number of sophomore concentrators and the total number of SEAS concentrators are both record-highs for the school, according to SEAS spokesperson Paul Karoff.
Computer Science Professor Seltzer to Leave Harvard
Seltzer has taught at Harvard since 1992; in 2000, she became the one of the first female junior faculty members at Harvard to receive internal tenure in Computer Science.
Economics Remains Most Popular Concentration
Economics retained its position as the most popular concentration at the College this fall, with 671 undergraduates—a slight increase from last year.