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The '''Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT'''<ref>{{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}}</ref> is an engineering department of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. It offers degrees of [[Master of Science]], [[Master of Engineering]], [[Doctor of Philosophy]], and [[Doctor of Science]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>{{Nothing}}
==History==
The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was initially taught by the [[MIT Physics Department|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Departmental History|url=https://www.eecs.mit.edu/about/departmental-history/|access-date=2021-10-18}}</ref>

==Current faculty==
===Professors===
* [[Silvio Micali]]
* [[Harold Abelson]]
* [[Anant Agarwal]]
* Akintunde I. Akinwande<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~akinwand/|title=Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande|website=www-mtl.mit.edu|access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref>
* Dimitri A. Antoniadis<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[Arvind (computer scientist)|Arvind]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Arthur B. Baggeroer<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[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]
* [[Shafi Goldwasser|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 [[MIT Mathematics Department|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==
* [[Leo Beranek]]
* [[Gordon S. Brown]] (S.B. 1931, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1938)
* [[Vannevar Bush]] (Eng.D. 1916)
* [[Jack Dennis]] (S.B. 1953, S.M. 1954, Sc.D. 1958)
* [[Harold Edgerton]] (S.M. 1927, Sc.D. 1931)
* [[Jay Wright Forrester]] (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 (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]]
* [[Marvin Minsky]]
* [[Julius Stratton]] (S.B. 1923, S.M. 1926)

==Notable alumni==

{|class="wikitable"
! Name
! S.B.
! S.M.
! Ph.D.
! Notability
|-
| [[Gordon Bell]]
| 1956
| 1957
|
| DEC [[Programmed Data Processor|PDP]] series, [[VAX]]
|-
| [[Manuel Blum]]
| 1959
| 1961
|
| [[computational complexity theory]]<br>1995 [[Turing Award]] recipient
|
|-
| [[Amar Gopal Bose]]
| 1951 
| 1952
| 1956
| [[Bose wave systems]]<br> Founder & Chairman of [[Bose Corporation]]
|
|-
| [[Vanu Bose]]
| 1988
| 1994
| 1999
| [[software-defined radio]]<br> 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 Howard Green|Cecil H. Green]]
| 1924
| 1924
|
| [[Texas Instruments]]
|-
| [[Richard Greenblatt (programmer)|Richard Greenblatt]]
|
|
|
| Developed [[MacLisp]] and [[MacHack (chess)|MacHack]]<br>Co-wrote the [[Incompatible Timesharing System]] and the MIT [[Lisp Machine]]<br>[[Lisp Machines|Lisp Machines, Inc.]]
|-
| [[Philip Greenspun]]
| 
| 1993
| 1999
| [[ArsDigita]], [[ICAD (software)|ICAD]]
|-
| [[William Reddington Hewlett|William R. Hewlett]]
|
| 1936
|
| [[Hewlett-Packard]]
|-
| [[W. Daniel Hillis]]
| 
| 1981
| 1988
| [[Thinking Machines Corporation|Thinking Machines]], Applied Minds<br>[[Clock of the Long Now]]<br>[[AI koans]]
|-
| [[David A. Huffman]]
|
|
| 1953
| [[Huffman coding]]
|-
| [[Brewster Kahle]]
| 1982
|
|
| [[Wide area information server|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]]<br>[[3Com]]
|-
| [[Ken Olsen]]
| 1950
|
|
| Invented [[magnetic core memory]]<br>[[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 (computer)|Whirlwind]]<br>[[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 (programming language)|Scheme]], the [[Lambda Papers]]
|-
| [[Ivan Sutherland]]
|
|
| 1963
| [[Sketchpad]]<br>[[Evans and Sutherland]]
|-
| [[Frederick Terman]]
|
|
| 1924
| Founding member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]]<br>One of the fathers of [[Silicon Valley]]
|-
| [[John G. Trump]]
|
|
| 1933
| [[Van de Graaff generator]]<br>[[Electron beam processing#Microbiological sterilization|Electron beam sterilization of wastewater]]
|-
| [[Andrew Viterbi]]
| 1957
| 1957
|
| [[Viterbi algorithm]]<br>[[Qualcomm]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.eecs.mit.edu MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science]

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