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Ballmer Gives Harvard Donation to Expand Computer Science
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Harvard University will increase its faculty in computer science, the school’s fastest-growing major, by 50 percent with funds from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.’s biggest shareholder and former chief executive officer.
The gift will support 12 new teachers, increasing the size of the computer science faculty to 36, said David Parkes, area dean for computer science at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard. The school didn’t provide the value of Ballmer’s donation.