Matthew S. Harris

Objective
To eventually gain employment at a research lab helping to learn about and advance the state of the ``art of computer programming,'' ideally but not exclusively related to the design of advanced programming languages and environments and the implementations that make them practical.
Education
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Second-year Ph.D. student in Department of Computer Science.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
BS in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences, concurrent MSE in Computer Science. Graduated with cumulative GPA 3.86 in 1998. Master's project: ``A Smalltalk-to-JVM Compiler'' .
Everett Community College
Everett, WA
AAS in Mathematics. Graduated with Highest Honors (GPA 4.00) in 1995.
Employment
Akamai Technologies
Summer 1999 -
Cambridge, MA
Developer.
Cornell University Computer Science Department
Spring 1999
Ithaca, NY
Lecturer. Taught the four-week short course Introduction to C.
Hewlett-Packard Company, Lake Stevens Division
Summer 1996
Everett, WA
IT Engineer. Upgraded several hundred devices (PCs running Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, and Windows NT 4.0, workstations running HP-UX, printers, and instrumentation) from 10Base-2 to 10Base-T, including pre-installation user interviews, monitoring system backups, installation, testing, post-installation evaluations, inventory management, and procedure documentation. Also performed general system support for PCs.
Computer Skills

Experienced with Pascal, C, Smalltalk, Java, Perl, Lisp, SML, SQL, and other languages, including LaTeX, HTML, and XML markup languages

Skilled with Unix, particularly using and maintaining GNU/Linux operating system

Honors and Memberships

Outstanding Senior Award for Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1998

Outstanding Student of Mathematics, Everett Community College, 1995

Outstanding Student of Mathematics, Cascade High School, 1995

Professional: Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society

Honor societies: Tau Beta Pi, Golden Key, Phi Theta Kappa


Matthew S. Harris
mharris@cs.cornell.edu