Samuel P. Harbison III, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer Science Education at Carlow College.
He earned his A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University (1974) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon (1980).
Dr. Sam Harbison is a computer scientist, author, and teacher in Pittsburgh. Prior to beginning his teaching career in 2001, he was a Fellow with Texas Instruments and the Chief Technical Officer for Tartan, Inc., a company started by faculty from Carnegie Mellon and acquired by Texas Instruments in 1996. His areas of expertise are programming languages and software development tools. He has written several books and many articles, including a best-selling reference for the C programming language. He was for three years the chairman of the international working group that standardized the C++ programming language, and he started and ran his own company in the early 1990s. Dr. Harbison is a life-long Pittsburgh resident.