Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT [1] 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. [2]

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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. [3] 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. [4]

Current faculty

Professors

Associate professors

Professors emeriti

Former faculty

Notable alumni

NameS.B.S.M.Ph.D.Notability
Gordon Bell 19561957DEC PDP series, VAX
Manuel Blum 19591961 computational complexity theory
1995 Turing Award recipient
Amar Gopal Bose 195119521956 Bose wave systems
Founder & Chairman of Bose Corporation
Vanu Bose 198819941999 software-defined radio
Founder & Ceo of Vanu Inc.
Dan Bricklin 1973Co-creator of VisiCalc
Wen Tsing Chow 1942 missile guidance systems
David D. Clark 19681973 Multics, TCP/IP
Wesley A. Clark LINC
Peter J. Denning 1968 Multics
Bob Frankston 1970Co-creator of VisiCalc
Cecil H. Green 19241924 Texas Instruments
Richard Greenblatt Developed MacLisp and MacHack
Co-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System and the MIT Lisp Machine
Lisp Machines, Inc.
Philip Greenspun 19931999 ArsDigita, ICAD
William R. Hewlett 1936 Hewlett-Packard
W. Daniel Hillis 19811988 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 19801980Invented the optical mouse
Leonard Kleinrock 19591963 queueing theory, ARPANET
Alan Kotok 19621966 Kotok-McCarthy chess program
Andrew Ng 1998 Computer Scientist, cofounder of Google Brain, adjunct professor at Stanford University, cofounder and chairman of Coursera, cofounder 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 1973Invented ethernet
3Com
Ken Olsen 1950Invented magnetic core memory
Digital Equipment Corporation
Bob Pease 1961 operational amplifiers, analog circuit design guru
Radia Perlman 1988 spanning-tree protocol
William Poduska 196019601962 Apollo Computer, Prime Computer
Willard Rockwell 1908 Rockwell International
Douglas T. Ross 1954 computer aided design, Whirlwind
SofTech, Inc.
Peter Samson 1963Early electronic music research
Bob Scheifler X Window System, Jini
Claude Shannon 1940 Information Theory
Alfred P. Sloan 1892Chairman of General Motors
Ray Stata Analog Devices
Guy Steele 19771980 Scheme, the Lambda Papers
Ivan Sutherland 1963 Sketchpad
Evans and Sutherland
Frederick Terman 1924Founding 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 19571957 Viterbi algorithm
Qualcomm

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science". MIT Course Catalog. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  2. ↑ "Degrees Offered in EECS Graduate Program" . Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  3. ↑ "The birth of electrical engineering". 9 March 2011. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Departmental History" . Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  5. ↑ "Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande". www-mtl.mit.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  6. ↑ "Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ph.D." www-mtl.mit.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  7. ↑ "CSAIL Biography". 2007-02-03. Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  8. ↑ "Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT". 2007-02-08. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

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