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Joseph A. Konstan ’87, former President of the Harvard Computer Society, came to the University the first year computer science was a formal concentration in 1984. Konstan, now a computer science professor at the University of Minnesota, said that enrollment in computer science classes at the introductory level was very high...
...That culture stayed around at least a decade longer than it needed to,” Konstan said. “It became a tradition that if your problem set is due at 10 a.m., you start at 11 or 12 and work through the night.” Konstan added that there was a tremendous sense of community during this time because he and his classmates largely worked in the same labs in the Science Center at night...
Computer science was not formally in the Core curriculum, but according to Konstan, the inclusion of basic programming into the quantitative reasoning courses was a way of saying that Harvard believed every student needed these skills—but without having to create a whole batch of new core courses...
...don’t know if it was a conscious decision or not, but Harvard trusted its students to an amazing amount of interconnected computing,” Konstan said...
...Konstan said that Harvard came out with a new network map about once a month, which showed the path of computers that would need to be called to send the message to its destination...