MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) 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.

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 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.

Current faculty Professors Silvio Micali Harold Abelson Anant Agarwal Akintunde I. Akinwande Dimitri A. Antoniadis Arvind Arthur B. Baggeroer Hari Balakrishnan Dimitri P. Bertsekas Robert C. Berwick Duane S. Boning Louis D. Braida Rodney A. Brooks Vincent W. S. Chan Anantha P. Chandrakasan Shafira Goldwasser Pablo A. Parrilo 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) Patrick H. Winston Regina Barzilay (website)

Associate professors Saman P. AmarasingheSaman P. Amarasinghe Krste AsanovicKrste Asanovic Marc BaldoMarc Baldo Sangeeta BhatiaSangeeta Bhatia Vladimir BulovicVladimir Bulovic Isaac L. ChuangIsaac L. Chuang Michael CollinsMichael Collins Karl K. BerggrenKarl K. Berggren Elfar AdalsteinssonElfar Adalsteinsson Tomás PalaciosTomas Palacios

Professors emeriti Michael Anthans Abraham Bers Amar Bose (S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D. 1956) James D. Bruce Fernando J. Corbató 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 Marvin Minsky Julius Stratton (S.B. 1923, S.M. 1926)

Notable alumni

Name S.B. S.M. Ph.D. Notability Gordon Bell 1956 1957 DEC PDP series, VAX Manuel Blum 1959 1961 computational complexity theory1995 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 MacHackCo-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System and the MIT Lisp MachineLisp Machines, Inc. Philip Greenspun 1993 1999 ArsDigita, ICAD William R. Hewlett 1936 Hewlett-Packard W. Daniel Hillis 1981 1988 Thinking Machines, Applied MindsClock of the Long NowAI 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 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 ethernet3Com Ken Olsen 1950 Invented magnetic core memoryDigital 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, WhirlwindSofTech, 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 SketchpadEvans and Sutherland Frederick Terman 1924 Founding member of the National Academy of EngineeringOne of the fathers of Silicon Valley John G. Trump 1933 Van de Graaff generatorElectron beam sterilization of wastewater Andrew Viterbi 1957 1957 Viterbi algorithmQualcomm

See also List of electrical engineering journals

References

External links MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science