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Join us on Wednesday, April 22 for a post-show conversation with Harry Lewis. 

Distinguished mathematician, computer scientist, and former Dean of Harvard College, Harry Lewis leads a conversation about the play.

Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Among his books are Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (with Hal Abelson and Ken Ledeen), and the 2019 textbook Essential Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (with Rachel Zax). To appear in 2020 is his edited collection of classic computer science papers, Ideas that Created the Future (MIT Press). His books about higher education include Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?, and What is College For? (with Ellen Condliffe Lagemann).

Lewis began his career in computer science working in computer graphics as an undergraduate student of Ivan Sutherland, and served at NIH as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service before returning to Harvard for his PhD. He started teaching computer science at Harvard in 1974, and his students have included both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. For eight years he served as Dean of Harvard College, and for half a year as interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.