MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
History
Subjects relating to Electrical Engineering were initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department.
Academics
Current faculty
Professors
- Silvio Micali
- Harold Abelson
- Anant Agarwal
- Akintunde I. Akinwande
- Dimitri A. Antoniadis
- Arvind
- Arthur B. Baggeroer
- Hari Balakrishnan
- Paul E. Gray
- Marvin Minsky
- Jerome H. Saltzer
- Kenneth N. Stevens
- Gerald J. Sussman
- Regina Barzilay
Associate professors
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Professors emeriti
- Amar Bose
- Fernando J. Corbató
- Robert Fano
Former faculty
- Leo Beranek
- Gordon S. Brown
- Vannevar Bush
- Jack Dennis
- Harold Edgerton
- Jay Wright Forrester
- Irwin M. Jacobs
- William B. Lenoir
- John McCarthy
- Julius Stratton
Notable alumni
| 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 | - |
| 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 | 1955 | 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 | - | |
| 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 | - | ||
| Andrew Viterbi | 1957 | 1957 | Viterbi algorithm Qualcomm | - |