James H. Morris

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James H. Morris
Born1941
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University (B.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA and Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction

James Hiram Morris (born 1941) is a professor (emeritus) of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and Dean of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. [1]

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Biography

A native of Pittsburgh, Morris received a Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an S.M. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. [2]

Morris taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. [2] He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm for string-search. [2]

For eight years, he worked at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), where he was part of the team that developed the Xerox Alto System. [2] He also directed the Cedar programming environment project. [2]

From 1983 to 1988, Morris directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, a joint project with IBM, which developed a prototype university computing system, the Andrew Project. [2] He has been the principal investigator of two National Science Foundation projects aimed at computer-mediated communication: EXPRES and Prep. [2]

He was a founder of the Carnegie Mellon's Human–Computer Interaction Institute and MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. [2] [3] [4]

He wrote a memoir, Thoughts of a Reformed Computer Scientist.

Selected papers

References

  1. "Dr. James H. Morris—web page". Carnegie Mellon University. (quote: 1941 • Born)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Advisory Board — (SCS Advisory Board Member Bios:)". Carnegie Mellon University. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16.
  3. "James H.Morris Personal Webpage". 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  4. "Baidu Scholar". 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-07.