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Now Accepting Applications for Professorships and Postdoctoral Fellowships

December 20, 2023

The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is now seeking candidates for the following positions:

Tenure-Track Professor in Computer Science (link)
Tenure-track or Tenured Professor in Computer Science and Kempner Institute Investigator (link...

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Harvard Theory Undergrad Sílvia Casacuberta Puig wins CRA Researcher Award; International Rhodes Fellowship

December 21, 2022

Harvard TCS undergraduate Sílvia Casacuberta Puig is the proud recipient of two major honors this Winter! Sílvia took home a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, as well as a prestigious... Read more about Harvard Theory Undergrad Sílvia Casacuberta Puig wins CRA Researcher Award; International Rhodes Fellowship

Prof. Madhu Sudan wins 30-year FOCS Test of Time Award for Paper on "Proof verification and the hardness of approximation problems"

November 7, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Madhu Sudan for receiving a 30-year FOCS Test of Time Award for the paper: "Proof verification and hardness of approximation problems". (Authors: Sanjeev Arora, Carsten Lund, Rajeev Motwani, Madhu Sudan, Mario Szegedy)

This seminal paper proves one of the fundamental theorems of modern computational...

Prof. Boaz Barak Awarded FOCS 2021 "Test of Time" Award for Groundbreaking 2001 Paper

March 17, 2022

The 2021 FOCS conference took place this February 2022, and Harvard Theory's own Boaz Barak received the prestigious FOCS "Test of Time" Award for his 2001 paper "How to Go Beyond the Black-Box Simulation Barrier".

On their website, the FOCS 2021 Test of Time Award committee states that it "[pays] ...

Prof. Madhu Sudan to Receive 2022 IEEE Hamming Medal

February 11, 2022

Prof. Sudan will receive the prestigious 2022 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for "fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes."

Theory Undergrads Make Strong Showing in CRA Awards! Ted Pyne a Winner

January 5, 2022

Harvard CS Theory Students made an incredible showing in the recent Computing Research Assocation (CRA) awards.

This program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Ted Pyne was a Winner, Louis Golowich a Finalist, and Noah Singer an Honorable Mention.

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Prof. Michael Mitzenmacher Wins ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for "The Power of Two Choices"

June 1, 2021

Harvard Theory of Computation Professor Michael Mitzenmacher, along with Yossi Azar, Andrei Broder, and Anna Karlin, have been named 2020 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practcice Award Recipients for "the discovery the discovery and analysis of balanced allocations, known as the power of two choices, and their extensive applications to practice. The Balanced Allocations paper and the follow-up work on the power of two choices are elegant theoretical results, and their content will continue to have a demonstrable effect on the practice of computing."

Prof. Harry Lewis Receives 2021 IEEE Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award

March 1, 2021

For "his over 40 year dedication towards undergraduate computer science education at Harvard, his authoring of Computer Science introductory textbooks, and his mentoring of many future educators", Prof. Harry R. Lewis has been honored with the IEEE Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Read more about Prof. Lewis and this honor by visiting his page on the ...

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Prof. Cynthia Dwork Awarded IEEE Hamming Medal

March 17, 2020

Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has been awarded the Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of...

Salil Vadhan named 2018 ACM Fellow

December 14, 2018

Vadhan, the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and area co-chair for Computer Science at SEAS and Harvard College Professor, was chosen for his work advancing computational complexity and cryptography, and for promoting public support for theoretical computer science.

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