The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT is an engineering department of the

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History

The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country. It was initially taught by the

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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.

Current faculty

Professors

Silvio Micali Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Compu ...

Harold Abelson Harold Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec ...

Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coher ...

* Akintunde I. Akinwande * Dimitri A. Antoniadis * Arvind * Arthur B. Baggeroer * Hari Balakrishnan
Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Robert C. Berwick

Duane S. Boning

Rodney A. Brooks

Vincent W. S. Chan

Anantha P. Chandrakasan
* Shafira Goldwasser
Pablo A. Parrilo

* Jerome H. Saltzer (Sc.D. 1966) * Kenneth N. Stevens (Sc.D. 1952) * Gerald J. Sussman (S.B. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, both in

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)
Patrick H. Winston
* Regina Barzilay
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Associate professors

Saman P. Amarasinghe

Krste Asanovic

Sangeeta Bhatia

Michael Collins

Tomas Palacios

Professors emeriti

Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the found ...

(S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D. 1956)
James D. Bruce
* Fernando J. Corbató
Shaoul Ezekiel
*

Robert Fano Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working ...

(S.B. 1941, Sc.D. 1947)

Former faculty

Leo Beranek Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies). He authored ''Acoustics'', considered a cl ...

* Gordon S. Brown (S.B. 1931, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1938) *

Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II, World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almo ...

(Eng.D. 1916) *

Jack Dennis Jack Bonnell Dennis (born October 13, 1931) is an American computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The work of Dennis in computer systems and computer languages is ...

(S.B. 1953, S.M. 1954, Sc.D. 1958) *

Harold Edgerton Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with ...

(S.M. 1927, Sc.D. 1931) *

Jay Wright Forrester Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student in 1 ...

(S.M. 1945) * Paul E. Gray (S.B. 1954, S.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1960) * Irwin M. Jacobs (S.M. 1957, Sc.D. 1959) * William B. Lenoir (S.B. 1961, S.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1965) * John McCarthy *

Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist, cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

* Julius Stratton (S.B. 1923, S.M. 1926)

Notable alumni

References

External links

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