# MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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The **MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science** (**EECS**)[1] is an engineering department of the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge,_Massachusetts), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts). It offers degrees of [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science), [Master of Engineering](/source/Master_of_Engineering), [Doctor of Philosophy](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy), and [Doctor of Science](/source/Doctor_of_Science).[2]

## 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](/source/MIT_Physics_Department) 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

- [Silvio Micali](/source/Silvio_Micali)
- [Harold Abelson](/source/Harold_Abelson)
- [Anant Agarwal](/source/Anant_Agarwal)
- Akintunde I. Akinwande[5]
- Dimitri A. Antoniadis[6]
- [Arvind](/source/Arvind_(computer_scientist))[7]
- Arthur B. Baggeroer[8]
- [Hari Balakrishnan](/source/Hari_Balakrishnan)
- [Dimitri P. Bertsekas](http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/i/dimitrib/www/home.html)
- [Robert C. Berwick](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208030015/http://csbi.mit.edu/members/Members/RobertBerwick)
- [Duane S. Boning](http://www-mtl.mit.edu/bin/user?boning)
- [Louis D. Braida](https://web.archive.org/web/20070204080918/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/LouisD.Braida.html)
- [Rodney A. Brooks](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203081642/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=2018)
- [Vincent W. S. Chan](http://web.mit.edu/chan/www/)
- [Anantha P. Chandrakasan](http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~anantha/)
- [Shafira Goldwasser](/source/Shafi_Goldwasser)
- [Pablo A. Parrilo](https://www.mit.edu/~parrilo/)
- [L. Rafael Reif](http://web.mit.edu/provost/biography.html)
- [Jerome H. Saltzer](/source/Jerome_H._Saltzer) (Sc.D. 1966)
- [Kenneth N. Stevens](/source/Kenneth_N._Stevens) (Sc.D. 1952)
- [Gerald J. Sussman](/source/Gerald_J._Sussman) (S.B. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, both in [Mathematics](/source/MIT_Mathematics_Department))
- [Patrick H. Winston](http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/804)
- [Regina Barzilay](/source/Regina_Barzilay) ([website](http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/))

### Associate professors

- [Saman P. Amarasinghe](/source/Saman_P._Amarasinghe)[9]
- [Krste Asanovic](/source/Krste_Asanovic)[10]
- [Marc Baldo](/source/Marc_Baldo)[11]
- [Sangeeta Bhatia](/source/Sangeeta_Bhatia)[12]
- [Vladimir Bulovic](/source/Vladimir_Bulovic)[13]
- [Isaac L. Chuang](/source/Isaac_L._Chuang)[14]
- Michael Collins[15]
- [Karl K. Berggren](/source/Karl_K._Berggren)[16]
- Elfar Adalsteinsson[17]
- [Tomás Palacios](/source/Tom%C3%A1s_Palacios_(engineer))[18]

### Professors emeriti

- [Michael Anthans](http://web.mit.edu/mathans/www/home.html)
- [Abraham Bers](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063349/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/AbrahamBers.html)
- [Amar Bose](/source/Amar_Bose) (S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D. 1956)
- [James D. Bruce](http://web.mit.edu/is/teams/itlt/ITLT_jdb.html)
- [Fernando J. Corbató](/source/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3)
- [Shaoul Ezekiel](https://web.archive.org/web/20070127204345/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ShaoulEzekiel.html)
- [Robert Fano](/source/Robert_Fano) (S.B. 1941, Sc.D. 1947)

## Former faculty

- [Leo Beranek](/source/Leo_Beranek)
- [Gordon S. Brown](/source/Gordon_S._Brown) (S.B. 1931, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1938)
- [Vannevar Bush](/source/Vannevar_Bush) (Eng.D. 1916)
- [Jack Dennis](/source/Jack_Dennis) (S.B. 1953, S.M. 1954, Sc.D. 1958)
- [Harold Edgerton](/source/Harold_Edgerton) (S.M. 1927, Sc.D. 1931)
- [Jay Wright Forrester](/source/Jay_Wright_Forrester) (S.M. 1945)
- [Paul E. Gray](/source/Paul_E._Gray) (S.B. 1954, S.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1960)
- [Irwin M. Jacobs](/source/Irwin_M._Jacobs) (S.M. 1957, Sc.D. 1959)
- [William B. Lenoir](/source/William_B._Lenoir) (S.B. 1961, S.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1965)
- [John McCarthy](/source/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist))
- [Marvin Minsky](/source/Marvin_Minsky)
- [Julius Stratton](/source/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

## See also

- [List of electrical engineering journals](/source/List_of_electrical_engineering_journals)

## References

1. ["Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science"](https://catalog.mit.edu/schools/engineering/electrical-engineering-computer-science/). *MIT Course Catalog*. Retrieved 2024-11-25.

1. ["Degrees Offered in EECS Graduate Program"](https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/graduate-program/degree-programs/degrees-offered). Retrieved 2021-10-15.

1. ["The birth of electrical engineering"](https://news.mit.edu/2011/timeline-eecs-0309). 9 March 2011. Retrieved 2021-10-18.

1. ["Departmental History"](https://www.eecs.mit.edu/about/departmental-history/). Retrieved 2021-10-18.

1. ["Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande"](http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~akinwand/). *www-mtl.mit.edu*. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

1. ["Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ph.D."](http://www-mtl.mit.edu/wpmu/daa/). *www-mtl.mit.edu*. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

1. ["CSAIL Biography"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203081001/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=212). 2007-02-03. Archived from [the original](http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=212) on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

1. ["Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208062946/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ArthurB.Baggeroer.html). 2007-02-08. Archived from [the original](http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ArthurB.Baggeroer.html) on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

1. [Saman P. Amarasinghe](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203080837/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=145)

1. [Krste Asanovic](http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=235)

1. [Marc Baldo](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063339/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/MarcA.Baldo.html)

1. [Sangeeta Bhatia](https://web.archive.org/web/20070123215306/http://lmrt.mit.edu/personnel/sangeeta.asp)

1. [Vladimir Bulovic](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063120/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/VladimirBulovic.html)

1. [Isaac L. Chuang](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063639/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/IsaacChuang.html)

1. [Michael Collins](https://web.archive.org/web/20041209004849/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=2000)

1. [Karl K. Berggren](https://web.archive.org/web/20070208063143/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/KarlK.Berggren.html)

1. [Elfar Adalsteinsson](https://web.archive.org/web/20070126064727/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ElfarAdalsteinsson.html)

1. [Tomas Palacios](http://mit.edu/tpalacios)

## External links

- [MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science](http://www.eecs.mit.edu)

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