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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...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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