Harry R. Lewis

An illustration of generations of computers, from large machines to smartphones and the cloud

Features | July-August 2024

Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard

Reflections on six decades of relations with computers

Team photo, Boston Tigers in 1940, Arthur Augustus “Fats” Johnson at far right

Features | September-October 2023

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

Illustration imagining the evolution of computer science at Harvard in a playful way

Features | September-October 2020

Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s

The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard

Illustration

Montage | May-June 2015

Harvard professor critiques book on youth, maturity

A philosopher’s take on individuals and maturity, in a world of institutions

Students at work (clockwise from left): Denver Ogaro, Naomi Wills, Jun Sup Lee, undergraduate course assistant Ben Adlam, and Raina Gandhi

Features | September-October 2012

Harry Lewis on the Genesis of CS 20, an innovative computer science course

Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it

Illustration by Robert Neubecker

Features | March-April 2012

Harvard deans urge renewing civic education

Time to restore American higher education’s lost mission

Illustration by Tom White/9 Surf Studios

Features | September-October 2011

A glimpse of Harry R. Lewis's courses on computer science

How should we handle information?

Gordon McKay

Features | September-October 2007

Gordon McKay

Brief life of an inventor with a lasting Harvard legacy: 1821-1903

Montage | March-April 2007

Talented Eccentrics

Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and...