{"id":2405,"date":"2017-04-21T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2018-06-08T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:48:11","slug":"wwhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2017\/04\/21\/wwhd\/","title":{"rendered":"WWHD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"margin-left: 20px\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#F7EFE5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a title=\"\u2026personal role model\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/files\/2017\/04\/Lewis.Harry_200x300_0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/files\/2017\/04\/Lewis.Harry_200x300_0.jpg\" alt=\"\u2026 Harry Lewis\u2026\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">\u2026personal role model\u2026<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 85%\"><span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 85%\">Image of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/directory\/lewis\">Harry Lewis<\/a> courtesy of Harvard John A. Paulson <a href=\"http:\/\/seas.harvard.edu\/\">School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This past Wednesday, April 19, was a celebration of computer science at Harvard, in honor of the 70th birthday of my undergraduate adviser, <a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.seas.harvard.edu\/\">faculty colleague<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.seas.harvard.edu\/pages\/few-things-were-written-end-my-deanship\">former<\/a> Dean of Harvard College, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/harry-lewis\/baseball-as-a-second-language\/paperback\/product-20137143.html\">baseball aficionado<\/a>, and personal role model <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_R._Lewis\">Harry Lewis<\/a>. The session lasted all day, with talks and reminiscences from many of Harry\u2019s past students, myself included. For those interested, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6fyB6C0sue4?t=1h45m18s\">my brief remarks<\/a> on the topic of \u201cWWHD?\u201d (What Would Harry Do?) can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8fCfkGFF7X8&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=4795\">the video of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the &#8220;Slow Down&#8221; memo that I quoted from is <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/harrylewis\/files\/slowdown2004.pdf\">available from Harry&#8217;s website<\/a>. I recommend it for every future college first-year student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026personal role model\u2026 Image of Harry Lewis courtesy of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences This past Wednesday, April 19, was a celebration of computer science at Harvard, in honor of the 70th birthday of my undergraduate adviser, faculty colleague, former Dean of Harvard College, baseball aficionado, and personal role model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[380,62113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-harry-lewis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5pLfN-wwhd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2009\/05\/22\/why-this-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":2405,"position":0},"title":"Why this blog?","author":"Stuart Shieber","date":"Friday, May 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This blog presents occasional writings on whatever I'm interested in at the moment, which currently includes topics such as: scholarly communications and open access, and other university matters computer science topics of various sorts language, linguistics, and computational linguistics pedagogy and writing I expect that in the near term, I'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lewis Carroll&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lewis Carroll","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/category\/other\/lewis-carroll\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2209,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2014\/11\/30\/the-turing-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":2405,"position":1},"title":"The Turing moment","author":"Stuart Shieber","date":"Sunday, November 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026less histrionic\u2026 Ed Stoppard as Alan Turing in Codebreaker We seem to be at the \u201cTuring moment\u201d, what with Benedict Cumberbatch, erstwhile Sherlock Holmes, now starring as a Hollywood Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. 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