About
Director of Harvard University's undergraduate computer science program. Also an author, he published such books as Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion and Excellence Without A Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education.
Before Fame
He graduated from Harvard University with Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D degrees in applied mathematics. He began teaching at his alma mater in the mid 1970s.
Trivia
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, he served as Harvard College's Dean.
Family Life
He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.
Associated With
While a professor at Harvard, he counted both Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg among his students.
