Notable Researchers
(Including members and alumni of CSAIL's predecessor labs.)
- MacArthur Fellows Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Erik Demaine, Daniela L. Rus, Peter Shor and Richard Stallman
- Turing Award recipients Leonard M. Adleman, Fernando J. Corbato, Butler W. Lampson, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Barbara Liskov
- Rolf Nevanlinna Prize recipients Madhu Sudan, Peter Shor
- Gödel Prize Recipients Shafi Goldwasser (two-time recipient), Silvio Micali, Charles Rackoff, Johan Håstad, Peter Shor, and Madhu Sudan
- Grace Murray Hopper Award recipients Robert Metcalfe, Shafi Goldwasser, Guy L. Steele, Richard Stallman, and W. Daniel Hillis
- Textbook authors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, Richard Stallman, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Patrick Winston, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein
- David D. Clark, former chief protocol architect for the Internet; co-author with Jerome H. Saltzer (also a CSAIL member) and David P. Reed of the influential paper "End-to-End Arguments in Systems Design"
- Seymour Papert, inventor of the Logo programming language
- Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the ELIZA computer-simulated therapist
- Bob Frankston, co-developer of VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet
- Richard Stallman, original inventor of Emacs and key agent in the free software movement and permanent resident at CSAIL
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