Harvard's computer science course CS50 among most popular on campus

(The Boston Globe, November 26, 2013)

CS50, a wildly popular computer science course at Harvard, has rocketed from being a middling course to one of the biggest on campus, with nearly 700 students and an astounding 102-member staff. Beyond sheer popularity, the success of CS50 is also emblematic of how Harvard is righting an imbalance in academia, putting it on a level field with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Long eclipsed by its two rivals for supremacy in technology fields, Harvard is fast becoming the kind of hotbed of innovation and start-up activity that draw venture capitalists and wheelbarrows of investment money.