Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT explained
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 is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the world,[2] [3] and offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science.[4]
History
The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country.[5] 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.[6]
Current faculty
Professors
Associate professors
Professors emeriti
Former faculty
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 |
| 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 | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . 2024-11-25 . MIT Course Catalog . en.
- Web site: QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020: Engineering - Electrical and Electronic.. 2021-10-15.
- Web site: The 50 best computer science schools in the world. . 2021-10-18.
- Web site: Degrees Offered in EECS Graduate Program. 2021-10-15.
- Web site: The birth of electrical engineering. 9 March 2011 . 2021-10-18.
- Web site: Departmental History. 2021-10-18.
- Web site: Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande. www-mtl.mit.edu. 2017-11-21.
- Web site: Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ph.D.. www-mtl.mit.edu. en. 2017-11-21.
- Web site: CSAIL Biography. 2007-02-03. 2017-11-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070203081001/http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/bioprint.php?PeopleID=212. 2007-02-03.
- Web site: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. 2007-02-08. 2017-11-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070208062946/http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/ArthurB.Baggeroer.html. 2007-02-08.
