Brian Harvey

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then now Brian Harvey Computer Science Division University of California at Berkeley 784 Soda Hall / 510 917-7828 bh@cs.berkeley.edu (he/him/hey, you) BS, Mathematics , MIT , 1969 MS, Computer Science , Stanford , 1975 PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , Berkeley , 1985 MA, Clinical Psychology, New College of…

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Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters

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In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them: