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  Of mice, men, and computers

  How three giants of early computing—Claude Shannon, SM ’40, PhD ’40, Marvin Minsky, and JCR Licklider—got their ideas and got them across.

  
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  A timeline of MIT computing milestones

  As the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing officially launches this fall, we came up with 25 ways MIT has already transformed computing.
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  Butler Lampson

  The man who helped user in the PC era

  
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  Margaret Hamilton

  By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon.

  
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  Ivan Sutherland, PhD ’63

  The engineer who invented the graphical user interface

  
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  Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88

  The mathematician who made networks work

  
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  Rodney Brooks

  The professor who got robots zipping through the world—and cleaning house—by challenging conventional wisdom in AI.

  
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  Shafi Goldwasser

  The number theory expert who helped revolutionize cryptography

  
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  Patrick Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70

  The professor who told stories—and taught computers to understand them.

  
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  Dina Katabi, SM ’99, PhD ’03

  First she improved wireless data flow. Then she found an entirely new way to use wireless signals—in health care.

  
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  Tom Leighton, PhD ’81

  The math professor who pushed the internet to the edge

  

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