Jeff Parker

Research Advisor

Lecturer in Extension

jparker at dce dot harvard dot edu

Fall 2009	Computer Graphics
Spring 2010	Bioinformatics Algorithms

Office Hours By arrangement

About me
I have a BA from Kenyon College, and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My degree is in Algebraic Topology. After graduation, I taught Computer Science for a decade at Williams College, Amherst College, and Boston College. I spent the next 15 years working in industry, and the last decade of that working for a sequence of startup companies around Boston. Throughout this period, I taught a course every semester at the Extension School at Harvard University to adult learners. It was an exhilarating period, but I am happy to back in the academy.

I worked for Phoenix Technologies, Prime Computer, Sun Microsystems, Agile Networks, Nexabit Networks, Lucent Technologies, and Axiowave Networks. I helped design and implement a number of networking devices, including an intelligent switch and two high speed routers.

After leaving industry, I taught two years at Middlebury College, and spent another two years teaching at Merrimack College in North Andover.

I have two daughters: Laila, a graduate of Carleton College, now working in Seattle, and Andrea, a graduate of University of Chicago now studying Landsacpe Architecture at the University of Virginia. My wife is a Math Coach, working with teachers to help change mathematics education in elementary schools. She worked for a number of users in the Boston Public Schools, and will be a math coach in the Newton Public Schools this fall.

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