Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

{{Short description|Academic department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}

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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT{{Cite web |title=Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |url=https://catalog.mit.edu/schools/engineering/electrical-engineering-computer-science/ |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=MIT Course Catalog |language=en}} is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science.{{Cite web|title=Degrees Offered in EECS Graduate Program|url=https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/graduate-program/degree-programs/degrees-offered|access-date=2021-10-15}}{{Nothing}}

History

The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country.{{Cite web|title=The birth of electrical engineering|date=9 March 2011 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/timeline-eecs-0309|access-date=2021-10-18}} It was initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department. The department was renamed to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1975, to highlight the new addition of computer science to the program.{{Cite web|title=Departmental History|url=https://www.eecs.mit.edu/about/departmental-history/|access-date=2021-10-18}}

Current faculty

=Professors=

  • Silvio Micali
  • Harold Abelson
  • Anant Agarwal
  • Akintunde I. Akinwande{{Cite web|url=http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~akinwand/|title=Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande|website=www-mtl.mit.edu|access-date=2017-11-21}}
  • Dimitri A. Antoniadis{{Cite web|url=http://www-mtl.mit.edu/wpmu/daa/|title=Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ph.D.|website=www-mtl.mit.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-21}}
  • Arvind{{Cite web|url=http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=212|title=CSAIL Biography|date=2007-02-03|access-date=2017-11-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203081001/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=212|archivedate=2007-02-03}}
  • Arthur B. Baggeroer{{Cite web|url=http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ArthurB.Baggeroer.html|title=Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT|date=2007-02-08|access-date=2017-11-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208062946/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ArthurB.Baggeroer.html|archivedate=2007-02-08}}
  • Hari Balakrishnan
  • [http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/i/dimitrib/www/home.html Dimitri P. Bertsekas]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208030015/http://csbi.mit.edu/members/Members/RobertBerwick Robert C. Berwick]
  • [http://www-mtl.mit.edu/bin/user?boning Duane S. Boning]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070204080918/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/LouisD.Braida.html Louis D. Braida]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203081642/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=2018 Rodney A. Brooks]
  • [http://web.mit.edu/chan/www/ Vincent W. S. Chan]
  • [http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~anantha/ Anantha P. Chandrakasan]
  • Shafira Goldwasser
  • [https://www.mit.edu/~parrilo/ Pablo A. Parrilo]
  • [http://web.mit.edu/provost/biography.html L. Rafael Reif]
  • Jerome H. Saltzer (Sc.D. 1966)
  • Kenneth N. Stevens (Sc.D. 1952)
  • Gerald J. Sussman (S.B. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, both in Mathematics)
  • [http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/804 Patrick H. Winston]
  • Regina Barzilay ([http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/ website])

=Associate professors=

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203080837/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=145 Saman P. Amarasinghe]
  • [http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=235 Krste Asanovic]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063339/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/MarcA.Baldo.html Marc Baldo]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070123215306/http://lmrt.mit.edu/personnel/sangeeta.asp Sangeeta Bhatia]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063120/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/VladimirBulovic.html Vladimir Bulovic]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063639/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/IsaacChuang.html Isaac L. Chuang]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209004849/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=2000 Michael Collins]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063143/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/KarlK.Berggren.html Karl K. Berggren]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070126064727/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ElfarAdalsteinsson.html Elfar Adalsteinsson]
  • [http://mit.edu/tpalacios Tomas Palacios]

=Professors emeriti=

  • [http://web.mit.edu/mathans/www/home.html Michael Anthans]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063349/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/AbrahamBers.html Abraham Bers]
  • Amar Bose (S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D. 1956)
  • [http://web.mit.edu/is/teams/itlt/ITLT_jdb.html James D. Bruce]
  • Fernando J. Corbató
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070127204345/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ShaoulEzekiel.html Shaoul Ezekiel]
  • Robert Fano (S.B. 1941, Sc.D. 1947)

Former faculty

Notable alumni

class="wikitable"

! Name

! S.B.

! S.M.

! Ph.D.

! Notability

Gordon Bell

| 1956

| 1957

|

| DEC PDP series, VAX

Manuel Blum

| 1959

| 1961

|

| computational complexity theory
1995 Turing Award recipient

|

Amar Gopal Bose

| 1951

| 1952

| 1956

| Bose wave systems
Founder & Chairman of Bose Corporation

|

Vanu Bose

| 1988

| 1994

| 1999

| software-defined radio
Founder & Ceo of Vanu Inc.

|

Dan Bricklin

| 1973

|

|

| Co-creator of VisiCalc

Wen Tsing Chow

|

| 1942

|

| missile guidance systems

David D. Clark

|

| 1968

| 1973

| Multics, TCP/IP

Wesley A. Clark

|

|

|

| LINC

Peter J. Denning

|

|

| 1968

| Multics

Bob Frankston

| 1970

|

|

| Co-creator of VisiCalc

Cecil H. Green

| 1924

| 1924

|

| Texas Instruments

Richard Greenblatt

|

|

|

| Developed MacLisp and MacHack
Co-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System and the MIT Lisp Machine
Lisp Machines, Inc.

Philip Greenspun

|

| 1993

| 1999

| ArsDigita, ICAD

William R. Hewlett

|

| 1936

|

| Hewlett-Packard

W. Daniel Hillis

|

| 1981

| 1988

| Thinking Machines, Applied Minds
Clock of the Long Now
AI koans

David A. Huffman

|

|

| 1953

| Huffman coding

Brewster Kahle

| 1982

|

|

| WAIS, Internet Archive

Steve Kirsch

| 1980

| 1980

|

| Invented the optical mouse

Leonard Kleinrock

|

| 1959

| 1963

| queueing theory, ARPANET

Alan Kotok

| 1962

| 1966

|

| Kotok-McCarthy chess program

Andrew Ng

|

| 1998

|

| Computer Scientist, cofounder of Google Brain, adjunct professor at Stanford University, cofounder and chairman of Coursera, cofounder [https://www.deeplearning.ai/ DeepLearning.AI], founder and CEO of Landing Ai, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, MOOC, education technology

Ray Kurzweil

| 1970

|

|

| Text to Speech, Speech Recognition

Daniel Levitin

|

|

|

| Neuroscientist

John N. Little

| 1978

|

|

| MathWorks

Robert Metcalfe

| 1973

|

|

| Invented ethernet
3Com

Ken Olsen

| 1950

|

|

| Invented magnetic core memory
Digital Equipment Corporation

Bob Pease

| 1961

|

|

| operational amplifiers, analog circuit design guru

Radia Perlman

|

|

| 1988

| Spanning Tree Protocol

William Poduska

| 1960

| 1960

| 1962

| Apollo Computer, Prime Computer

Willard Rockwell

| 1908

|

|

| Rockwell International

Douglas T. Ross

|

| 1954

|

| computer aided design, Whirlwind
SofTech, Inc.

Peter Samson

| 1963

|

|

| Early electronic music research

Bob Scheifler

|

|

|

| X Window System, Jini

Claude Shannon

|

| 1940

|

| Information Theory

Alfred P. Sloan

| 1892

|

|

| Chairman of General Motors

Ray Stata

|

|

|

| Analog Devices

Guy Steele

|

| 1977

| 1980

| Scheme, the Lambda Papers

Ivan Sutherland

|

|

| 1963

| Sketchpad
Evans and Sutherland

Frederick Terman

|

|

| 1924

| Founding member of the National Academy of Engineering
One of the fathers of Silicon Valley

John G. Trump

|

|

| 1933

| Van de Graaff generator
Electron beam sterilization of wastewater

Andrew Viterbi

| 1957

| 1957

|

| Viterbi algorithm
Qualcomm

References

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