MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT offers academic programs leading to the S.B., S.M., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees. Its faculty conducts research in Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, Operations Research and many other fields.
In MIT's system of numbering departments, EECS is known as "Course 6" or "Course VI".
History
Subjects relating to Electrical Engineering were initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department.
Academics
Current faculty
Professors
Associate professors
Assistant professors
Professors emeriti
Former faculty
Notable alumni
| Name |
S.B. |
S.M. |
Ph.D. |
Notability |
| Gordon Bell |
1956 |
1957 |
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DEC PDP series, VAX |
| Manuel Blum |
1959 |
1961 |
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computational complexity theory
1995 Turing Award recipient |
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| Amar Gopal Bose |
1951 |
1952 |
1956 |
Bose wave systems
Founder & Chairman of Bose Corporation |
| Dan Bricklin |
1973 |
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Co-creator of VisiCalc |
| Wen Tsing Chow |
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1942 |
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missile guidance systems |
| David D. Clark |
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1968 |
1973 |
Multics, TCP/IP |
| Wesley A. Clark |
1955 |
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LINC |
| Peter J. Denning |
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1968 |
Multics |
| Bob Frankston |
1970 |
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Co-creator of VisiCalc |
| Cecil H. Green |
1924 |
1924 |
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Texas Instruments |
| Richard Greenblatt |
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Developed MacLisp and MacHack
Co-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System and the MIT Lisp Machine
Lisp Machines, Inc. |
| Philip Greenspun |
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1993 |
1999 |
ArsDigita, ICAD |
| William R. Hewlett |
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1936 |
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Hewlett-Packard |
| W. Daniel Hillis |
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1981 |
1988 |
Thinking Machines, Applied Minds
Clock of the Long Now
AI koans |
| David A. Huffman |
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1953 |
Huffman coding |
| Brewster Kahle |
1982 |
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WAIS, Internet Archive |
| Steve Kirsch |
1980 |
1980 |
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Invented the optical mouse |
| Leonard Kleinrock |
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1959 |
1963 |
queueing theory, ARPANET |
| Alan Kotok |
1962 |
1966 |
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Kotok-McCarthy chess program |
| Ray Kurzweil |
1970 |
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Text to Speech, Speech Recognition |
| John N. Little |
1978 |
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MathWorks |
| Robert Metcalfe |
1973 |
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Invented ethernet
3Com |
| Ken Olsen |
1950 |
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Invented magnetic core memory
Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Bob Pease |
1961 |
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operational amplifiers, analog circuit design guru |
| Radia Perlman |
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1988 |
spanning-tree protocol |
| William Poduska |
1960 |
1960 |
1962 |
Apollo Computer, Prime Computer |
| Willard Rockwell |
1908 |
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Rockwell International |
| Douglas T. Ross |
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1954 |
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computer aided design, Whirlwind
SofTech, Inc. |
| Peter Samson |
1963 |
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Early electronic music research |
| Bob Scheifler |
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X Window System, Jini |
| Claude Shannon |
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1940 |
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Information Theory |
| Alfred P. Sloan |
1892 |
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Chairman of General Motors |
| Ray Stata |
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Analog Devices |
| Guy Steele |
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1977 |
1980 |
Scheme, the Lambda Papers |
| Ivan Sutherland |
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1963 |
Sketchpad
Evans and Sutherland |
| Frederick Terman |
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1924 |
Founding member of the National Academy of Engineering
one of the fathers of Silicon Valley |
| Andrew Viterbi |
1957 |
1957 |
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Viterbi algorithm
Qualcomm |
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