My Graduate School Years at Harvard University.

In 1973, I was admitted to Harvard University graduate school. I attended class lectures at both Harvard and MIT, which allowed cross registration of classes. My adviser was Harry Lewis who is now Dean of Harvard College.

During my graduate student days, Jane and I and 5 other students shared a cooperative house, which we rented at Somerville Mass. I was even scruffier in those days, with long hair and an unkempt beard. Unfortunately, I had not enough money to downhill ski much in those days, but we did a lot of cross-country skiing and began somewhat radical telemark skiing through tight tree shots on the lower slopes of Mount Washington.

My PhD thesis was completed in 1977 was on the topic of efficient graph algorithms for program optimization. One chapter of my thesis was co-authored with Robert Tarjan at Princeton University.