Greg Morrisett

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John Gregory Morrisett
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Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
ThesisCompiling with Types (1995)
Doctoral advisor
Websitetech.cornell.edu/people/greg-morrisett/

John Gregory Morrisett is a computer science scholar who has been serving as dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech in New York City since June 2019.[1] Previously he served as dean for computing and information science at Cornell University in Ithaca from 2015 to 2019 and director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from 2012 to 2014.[1][2][3]

Morrisett received a Bachelor of Science with major in mathematics and computer sincere from the University of Richmond in Virginia in 1989. From Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, he received a Master of Science in computer science in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 1995.[4]

The group he was part of at Cornell University created the Cyclone programming language in 2002.[5] In 2013, he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[6]

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  1. ^ a b "Cornell Tech - Greg Morrisett Named Dean of Cornell Tech". Cornell Tech. 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  2. ^ "Greg Morrisett to return to Cornell as CIS dean". Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  3. ^ "John Gregory Morrisett — Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences". SEAS Directory. Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  4. ^ "John Gregory Morrisett CV June 2016" (PDF). Cornell University Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  5. ^ Knight, Will (2001-11-16). ""Cyclone" blows computer bugs out of code". NewScientist. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  6. ^ ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Association for Computing Machinery, accessed 2013-12-10.

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