# Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT 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. Amarasinghe
* Krste Asanovic
* Marc Baldo
* Sangeeta Bhatia
* Vladimir Bulovic
* Isaac L. Chuang
* Michael Collins
* Karl K. Berggren
* Elfar Adalsteinsson
* Tomas 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 theory 1995 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| John G. Trump | | | 1933 | Van de Graaff generator Electron beam sterilization of wastewater |
| Andrew Viterbi | 1957 | 1957 | | Viterbi algorithm Qualcomm |