Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He was the Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003. He is a Visitor of Ralston College and a Life Trustee of the Roxbury Latin School. He blogs regularly at and his old blog may still be found on-line at
Harry Lewis was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard in Applied Mathematics — Bachelor"s degree summa cum laude in 1968, Master"s degree in 1973 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974.
Among his students were the young Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, whose website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" was a precursor to Facebook.
His Doctor of Philosophy thesis, supervised by Burton Dreben, was titled "Herbrand Expansions and Reductions of the Decision Problem." He has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1974.