6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, was the first course in the required core for undergraduates in Course 6, Electrical Engineering and ...

The differential analyser was a mechanical analog computer, designed to solve differential equations by integration, using wheel-and-disc mechanisms to perform ...

This active instrumented object was built at the MIT Touch Lab to investigate the hand's ability to reflexively grasp and control an object against gravity. In ...

Ivan Sutherland attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and did a Ph.D. at MIT. Working under computing pioneer Claude Shannon at MIT, Sutherland created the ...

Eliza, a computer program that carries on a "conversation" with a user; written by Joseph Weizenbaum (MIT '66) in 1966. An early artificial ...

This is the second "arm" developed by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert in their multi-year project to develop a computer system that could "see" and manipulate ...