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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.

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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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Jaroslaw Blasiok named 2019 Siebel Scholar

October 5, 2018

Five computer science graduate students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2019 Siebel Scholars.

Emma Alexander, Jaroslaw Blasiok, Robert Bowden, Nam Wook Kim, and Bradley McDanel will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.

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Yaron Singer named Sloan Research Fellow

February 15, 2018

Two computer scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows.

Finale Doshi-Velez and Yaron Singer, assistant professors of Computer Science at SEAS, join 126 early-career scholars who “represent the most promising...

"Best-Ever" Streaming Algorithm

October 25, 2017

The FOCS 2016 paper of Jelani Nelson and collaborators Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering is described in a lay-audience Quanta article Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data. Read more about "Best-Ever" Streaming Algorithm

Jean Pouget-Abadie named 2018 Siebel Scholar

October 12, 2017

Five computer science graduate students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2018 Siebel Scholars.

Jean Pouget-Abadie, Hongyao Ma, Andy Miller, Brandon Reagen, and Sam Wiseman will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.

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Madhu Sudan elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2017

Madhu Sudan, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

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Dwork awarded Gödel Prize

March 28, 2017

Cynthia Dwork has been awarded the 2017 Gödel Prize for her outstanding paper in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. Dwork, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), shares the award with coauthors Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith.

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