James H. Morris

Dr. James H. Morris is the Dean of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and Professor of Computer Science. He was previously Dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.

He taught at the University of California, Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm for string-search.

For ten years he worked at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) where he was part of the team that developed the Alto System. He also directed the Cedar programming environment project.

From 1983 to 1988 he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, a joint project with IBM, which developed a prototype university computing system, Andrew. He has been the principal investigator of two NSF projects aimed at computer-mediated communication: EXPRES and Prep.

He was a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design.

A native of Pittsburgh, he received a Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in Management from MIT, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.