Harry R. Lewis

Harry Lewis is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, a position he has held since 1981. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1968, and his PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1974. In between his two degrees, he served for two years as a commissioned officer of the United States Public Health Service, and spent a year in Europe as a traveling fellow of Harvard. He joined the Harvard faculty in the fall of 1974.

Lewis is the author of five books and numerous articles on computer science. He served as the dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, where he oversaw the undergraduate experience from residential life and academic advising to intercultural and race relations. In 2006 he published Excellence Without A Soul, a book about higher education. He is a trustee of the Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous existence in North America.

Lewis lives in Brookline and worries constantly about the Red Sox.