Greg Morrisett

{{short description|Computer science scholar}}

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| fields = Computer science

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• Cornell University
• Harvard University}}

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• University of Richmond (BS)
• Carnegie Mellon University (MS, PhD)

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| thesis_title = Compiling with Types

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| thesis_year = 1995

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• Robert Harper
• Jeannette Wing}}

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John Gregory Morrisett is a computer science scholar who has been serving as dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech in New York City since June 2019.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-07 |title=Cornell Tech - Greg Morrisett Named Dean of Cornell Tech |url=https://tech.cornell.edu/news/greg-morrisett-named-dean-of-cornell-tech/ |access-date=2020-01-02 |website=Cornell Tech |language=en}} Previously he served as dean for computing and information science at Cornell University in Ithaca from 2015 to 2019 and director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from 2012 to 2014.{{cite web |title=Greg Morrisett to return to Cornell as CIS dean |url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/greg-morrisett-return-cornell-cis-dean |accessdate=2015-03-29}}{{cite web |title=John Gregory Morrisett — Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |url=http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/greg |accessdate=2010-01-23 |work=SEAS Directory |publisher=Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences}}

Morrisett received a Bachelor of Science with major in mathematics and computer science from the University of Richmond in Virginia in 1989. From Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, he received a Master of Science in computer science in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 1995.{{Cite web |title=John Gregory Morrisett CV June 2016 |url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jgm/cv.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810235238/https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jgm/cv.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-10 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Cornell University Department of Computer Science}}

The group he was part of at Cornell University created the Cyclone programming language in 2002.{{cite news|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1578|title="Cyclone" blows computer bugs out of code|last=Knight|first=Will|date=2001-11-16|work=NewScientist|accessdate=2010-01-23}} In 2013, he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/fellows-2013 ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722132808/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/fellows-2013|date=2014-07-22}}, Association for Computing Machinery, accessed 2013-12-10.