"Nowadays it's very, very difficult to get good people especially with competition from the marketplace," he said.
Henry H. Leitner, a senior lecturer in the department, said the field of computer science is rapidly expanding along with Harvard's department.
"Having an extra body on the computer science faculty with tenure will add stability," Leitner said.
In addition to his merits as a researcher, Smith is also an outstanding teacher, Leitner added.
"We need more people like Michael Smith," he said. "Undergraduates love him, his teaching evaluations are always among the very highest. Harvard did very well in this case."
. Smith received the prestigious National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994.
His current work focuses in the area of computer architecture and optimizing the performance of what are called "uniprocessors."
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