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Jim Waldo

Jim Waldo

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Chief Technology Officer

Primary Teaching Area

Computer Science

Contact

150 Western Ave, Sci&Eng 4.301
waldo@g.harvard.edu

Websites

scholar.harvard.edu/waldo

Staff Contact

Marina DiDonato McLaughlin
marina@seas.harvard.edu
she/her/hers

Research Areas

Computer Science
Computation and Society Computational and Data Science Programming Languages Systems, Networks, and Databases

Related News

Q&A with Jim Waldo
Mar 19, 2020

Remote work will stress-test the internet — and parts will fail

Computer scientist Jim Waldo says there will be cascading failures that get fixed on the fly

Computer Science, Technology

Jun 6, 2011

SEAS Professor of the Practice Jim Waldo named University CTO

Waldo will be responsible for the architecture and implementation of the University's technology environment

Computer Science

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