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...heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with students were the common threads tying together a year that was disappointing by any standard. McKay Professor of Computer Science Michael D. Smith, who was named Dean of the Faculty Monday, faces quite a challenge in uniting and inspiring the Faculty.The main business of the year for the full Faculty was to complete the Curricular Review, which was limping into its fifth year. One would expect...
...computer science and engineering, will assume the leadership of the University’s flagship school in just six weeks. He has served as associate dean since 2005, and he has held a position as a tenured professor in the Faculty for only seven years. He is currently the McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.Though the chairman of a private software company and former swim coach has a wide range of leadership experience outside of the academy, his administrative experience at Harvard is limited when compared to the three deans who preceded him. “Mike Smith...
...biomedical area, ideas that come out of labs typically are years, maybe a decade, away from being realized, and so there’s a lot of work still to be done,” says McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards. “By virtue of those walls being set up, it limits a lot the ability of the faculty to help make those ideas pan out. And that is very likely part of the reason why more ideas don’t come out of the University and affect healthcare...
...Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 knows why. The Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, he spends the last chapter of his book, “Excellence Without a Soul,” defending the value of college sports in the university setting. He recognizes the need for an AI while acknowledging coaches’ dissatisfaction and warning against the potential of a “race to the bottom” in its absence...
...courses with different objects from what the Core required,” Maier wrote in an e-mail from Paris, where he is teaching for a month. “This will take some time.”But according to Harry R. Lewis ’68, the McKay professor of computer science and former dean of the College, the Faculty is taking a risk by leaving the details of the new curriculum to be worked out by a future committee.“We are going to vote this legislation first and then assign to a committee...