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Faculty Features Faculty Awards including receipt by Shafi Goldwasser and Sivio Micali of the ACM Turing Award in June 2013, for their pioneering work in cryptography and complexity theory 33 - 35

Faculty Awards

Anant Agarwal

Saman Amarasinghe

Tim Berners-Lee

Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Madras, 2014

2013 IEEE/ACM CGO for most influential paper

2013 inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in the creation (25 years ago) of the World Wide Web

Srini Devadas

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

William T. Freeman

2014 ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award; IEEE Computer Society's 2014 Technical Achievement Award 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Top 10 Cited Author, Best-Paper Hat Trick Award

Materials Research Society 2013 von Hippel Award

Test-of-time awards from the 2013 International Conference on Computer Vision and the 2013 IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference

James Fujimoto

Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali

Qing Hu

2014 IEEE Photonics Award

Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for pioneering work in cryptography and complexity theory

Boston Museum of Science and Boston Patent Law Association honor 2013 Inventions & Inventors for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real Time Terahertz Imaging

Faculty Fellowships, Chairs, New Faculty and Leadership Appointments at MIT 36 - 45 Honoring Three Faculty Luminaries: Amar Bose, Kenneth Stevens and James Roberge 46 - 48

Celebrating Milestones in Academic Families 49 - 50

MIT EECS Connector — Spring 2014

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