| Organization | Award Name | Member | Year |
|---|
| Technology Review | 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World | Nancy Lynch | 2003 |
| Technology Review | 100 Brilliant Young Innovators | Jovan Popovic | 2003 |
| MIT/50K | 1K Preliminary Award | Alan Edelman | 2004 |
| ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming | 1st Prize in the ICPF Programming Contest | Charles Leiserson | 1998 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 2nd Prize in the World Computer Chess Championship | Charles Leiserson | 1995 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Barbara Liskov | 2009 |
| Mathematical Programming Society | A.W. Tucker Prize | Michel Goemans | 1991 |
| Boston Computer Society | AI Award | Randall Davis | 1986 |
| Academia Sinica | Academician | Victor Zue | 2008 |
| Society of Women Engineers | Achievement Award | Barbara Liskov | 1996 |
| SIAM | Activity Group on Optimization Prize | Michel Goemans | 1999 |
| MIT EECS | Adler Scholar | Hal Abelson | 1993 |
| RSA | Albert Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| ASCE | Alfred Noble Prize | Alan Willsky | 1979 |
| University of Minnesota | Alumni Award | Arvind | 2001 |
| NASA | Ames Team Excellence Award | Brian Williams | 1995 |
| ACM | Athena Lecturer, Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) | Shafi Goldwasser | 2008 |
| Die Quadriga | Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2005 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Award for Initiatives in Research | David Karger | 2002 |
| The Prince of Asturias Foundation | Award for Technical and Scientific Research | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| IEEE | Award in International Communication | David Clark | 1995 |
| IEEE | Babbage Award | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| MIT EECS | Baker Award | Martin Rinard | 1998 |
| Association of American Publishers | Best 1990 Professional and Scholarly Book in Computer Science and Data Processing | Charles Leiserson | 1990 |
| ACM | Best Demo Award, SenSys Conf. | Sam Madden | 2006 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Mihai Patrascu | 2009 |
| VLDB | Best Paper Award | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| 8th Int. Conf. on Radiation Effects in Insulators (with Hobbs Sreeram Jesurum). | Best Paper Award (Image and Multimedimensional Signal | Bonnie Berger | 1995 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf | Sam Madden | 2006 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| SOSP '99 | Frans Kaashoek | 1999 |
| Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference | "Best Paper in Track: ""An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non Photorealistic Rendering"" by Y. Semet| U.M. O’Reilly| F. Durand." | Una-May O'Reilly | 2004 |
| CAAD 07 | Best Presentation | Seth Teller | 2007 |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Best Student Paper | Rob Miller | 2000 |
| ACM | Best Student Paper - SIGIR 2003 | Gregory Marton | |
| IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity | Best Student Paper Award | Scott Aaronson | 2003 |
| ACM SenSys | Best paper | Seth Teller | 2004 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Tommi Jaakkola | 2007 |
| Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing | Best paper award in High Performance Systems Category | Srini Devadas | 2001 |
| FOCS | Best student paper | Piotr Indyk | 2000 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best student paper (natural systems category) | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2003 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best student paper (synthetic systems category) | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2003 |
| MIT | Billard Award for Distinguished Service | Thomas Magnanti | |
| Popular Science | Brilliant 10 | Erik Demaine | 2004 |
| AAS/DPS | Brouwer Award | Jack Wisdom | 2002 |
| IEEE | Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award | Alan Willsky | 1980 |
| UC Berkeley | C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award | Scott Aaronson | 2002 |
| National Science Foundation | CAREER award | Manolis Kellis | 2007 |
| NSF | Career Award | Nicholas Roy | 2006 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences | Collin Stultz | 2003 |
| Louisiana State University | Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer | Joel Moses | 2002 |
| IEEE | Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award | Arvind | 1994 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Charles Stark Draper Prize | Butler Lampson | 2004 |
| MIT EECS | Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Prize | Heidi Pan | 2002 |
| High-Performance Computing Challenge | Class 2 (productivity) - Best Overall Productivity | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2006 |
| High-Performance Computing Challenge | Class 2 (productivity) - Finalist | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2005 |
| AAAI | Classic Paper Award, Honorable Mention | Rodney Brooks | 2008 |
| IEEE | Claude E. Shannon Award | Robert Fano | 1976 |
| Rice University | Claude W. Heaps Prize | Jack Wisdom | 1975 |
| Cornell | College of Engineering Teaching Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1996 |
| City of Genoa| Italy | Columbian Gold Medal | Robert Fano | 1986 |
| IEEE | Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications | David Clark | 2001 |
| IEEE | Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems | Jerry Saltzer | 1994 |
| IEEE | Computer Society W. Wallace Mc Dowell Award | F. J. Corbato | 1966 |
| NEC | Computers and Communications Award | Ronald Rivest | 2009 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Rodney Brooks | 1991 |
| IEEE | Computing Society Computer Pioneer Award | F. J. Corbato | 1982 |
| INFORMS | Computing Society Prize for best paper | Peter Shor | 2007 |
| Australian Academy of Science | Corresponding Member | Rodney Brooks | 2006 |
| 2004 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing | Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award | Scott Aaronson | 2004 |
| UC Berkeley | David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize | Scott Aaronson | 2005 |
| Biophysical Society | Dayoff Award | Bonnie Berger | 1998 |
| MIT School of Science | Dean's Educational and Student Advising Award | Michel Goemans | 2004 |
| AMS | Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize | Michel Goemans | 2000 |
| CMU | Dickson Prize in Science | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| California Institute of Technology | Distinguished Alumni Award | Peter Shor | 2007 |
| MIT | Distinguished Alumnus (1964) Career Development Chair | Manolis Kellis | 2005 |
| I.I.T. Kanpur | Distinguished Alumnus Award | Arvind | 1999 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Distinguished Paper Award | Brian Williams | 2001 |
| Computing Research Association | Distinguished Service Award | David Clark | 2004 |
| ACM SIGACT | Distinguished Service Prize | Tom Leighton | 2006 |
| IEEE Computer Society | Distinguished Visitor for the Asia-Pacific Region | Charles Leiserson | 1996 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2008 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award| Honorable Mention | Rob Miller | 2002 |
| John and Fannie Hertz Foundation | Doctoral Thesis Award | Charles Leiserson | 1982 |
| IEEE | Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2004 |
| American Automatic Control Council | Donald P. Eckman Award | Alan Willsky | 1975 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award | John Leonard | |
| IEEE/ACM | Eckert-Mauchly Award | Jack Dennis | 1984 |
| IBM | Eclipse Innovation | Martin Rinard | 2003 |
| MIT | Edgerton Award | Erik Demaine | 2005 |
| ACM | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing | Nancy Lynch | 2007 |
| MIT | Entrepreneurship Award | Tom Leighton | 2001 |
| IBM | Faculty Research Award | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| Cornell Association for Computer Science Undergraduates | Faculty of the Year | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1995 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2007 |
| World Technology Network | Finalist| World Technology Award for Space | Brian Williams | 2003 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Foreign Associate | Tim Berners-Lee | 2009 |
| Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) | Foreign Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 2006 |
| MIT | Frank Perkins Award for Excellent in Graduate Advising | Randall Davis | 2003 |
| MIT Academic Resource Center | Freshman Advisor of the Year | Thomas Greene | 2005 |
| International Neural Network Society | Gabor Award | Tomaso Poggio | 2004 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Gallery of Women in Engineering | Mary (Missy) Cummings | |
| MIT | George M. Sprowles Prize | Bonnie Berger | 1990 |
| Journal Networks | Glover-Klingman Prize| best paper published during the year | Thomas Magnanti | 2005 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Grace Hopper Lecturer | Nancy Lynch | 2003 |
| ACM | Grace Murray Hopper Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 1996 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2005 |
| MIT Graduate Student Council | Graduate Teaching Award | Patrick Winston | 2006 |
| NASA | Group Achievement Award | Brian Williams | 2004 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan | 2007 |
| Computer Reseller News | Hall of Fame Member | Michael Stonebraker | |
| AAS/DPS | Harold C. Urey Prize | Jack Wisdom | 1986 |
| American Federation of Information Processing Societies | Harry Goode Memorial Award | F. J. Corbato | 1980 |
| AAS | Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | Jack Wisdom | 1987 |
| John and Fannie Hertz Foundation | Hertz Fellowship | Charles Leiserson | 1977 |
| Mass | High Tech Award | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| Politecnico di Torino | Honorary Degree | Robert Fano | 2005 |
| University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa | Honorary Doctor Scientiae (DSc) | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| Columbia University | Honorary Doctor of Law | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| Dalhousie University | Honorary Doctor of Laws | Erik Demaine | 2007 |
| Oxford University | Honorary Doctor of Science | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| The Technion | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| ETH Zurich | Honorary doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2005 |
| IBM | IBM University Partnership Faculty Award | Michel Goemans | 1999 |
| International Speech Communication Association | ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement | Victor Zue | 2007 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Kristina Lantheaume | 2009 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Sustained Excellence | Jack Costanza | 2009 |
| IEEE | Info Theory Society - Best Paper | Madhu Sudan | |
| The Economist | Innovation Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Harvard Medical School| Center for Biomedical Informatics | Innovation in Personally Controlled Health Record Infrastructure | Peter Szolovits | 2006 |
| MIT | Institute Professor | Joel Moses | 1999 |
| MIT Department of Athletics| Physical Education and Recreation | Instructor of the Year 2005 | Fern DeOliveira | 2005 |
| IEEE | "Intelligent Systems ""AI's to Watch""" | Regina Barzilay | 2006 |
| Francqui Foundation | International Francqui Chair | Erik Demaine | 2007 |
| King Faisal Foundation | International Prize in Science | Peter Shor | 2002 |
| QCMC | International Quantum Communications Award | Peter Shor | 1998 |
| IEEE | Int'l. Conf. on Acoustics| Speech| and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - – Best Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2006 |
| International Congress of Mathematics at Beijin | Invited to give the plenary talk | Shafi Goldwasser | 2002 |
| MIT | Irwin Sizer Award for Significant Innovations in MIT Education | Thomas Magnanti | 2001 |
| IEEE | James H. Mulligan| Jr. Education Medal | Robert Fano | 1977 |
| MIT | James N. Murphy Award | Be Blackburn | 1991 |
| Harvard Medical School | James Tolbert Shipley Prize | Collin Stultz | 1997 |
| The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan | Japan Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| MIT | Jerome Saltzer Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| Microsoft | Jim Gray's Sort Benchmark Home Page | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2007 |
| IEEE | John von Neumann Medal | Butler Lampson | 2001 |
| MIT EECS | Junior Bose Teaching Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2002 |
| ACM | Karl V. Karlstrom | Gerald Sussman | 1991 |
| MIT | Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professorship | Manolis Kellis | 2007 |
| Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology | Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize | Erik Demaine | 2008 |
| Operations Research Society of America | Kimball Medal for Distinguished Service | Thomas Magnanti | 1994 |
| Order the British Empire | Knight Commander | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| ACM | Knuth Prize | Nancy Lynch | 2007 |
| IEEE | Kobayashi Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 1997 |
| IFIP TC11 | Kristian Beckman Award | Butler Lampson | 2006 |
| Operations Research Society of America | Lanchester Prize| Best Publication in Operations Research | Thomas Magnanti | 1993 |
| University of Pavia | Laurea Honoris Causa in Computer Science | Tomaso Poggio | 2000 |
| MITX | Leadership Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| Mathematical Association of America | Lester R. Ford Award | Alan Edelman | 2005 |
| ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages | Lifetime Achievement Award | Barbara Liskov | 2008 |
| Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange | Lifetime member | Ronald Rivest | 2005 |
| IEEE | Longuet-Higgins Award | Edward Adelson | 2005 |
| MIT | Louis B. Smullins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | Rob Miller | 2007 |
| British Computer Society | Lovelace Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2006 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| MIT EECS | MacVicar Faculty Fellow | Daniel Jackson | 2009 |
| The Marconi Society | Marconi Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| MIT EECS | MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation Award | Zeeshan Syed | 2003 |
| RSA | Mathematics Award | Silvio Micali | 2004 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Jack Dennis | 2009 |
| MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab | Merit Award for Basic Research in Artificial Intelligence | Brian Williams | 1987 |
| ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming | Most Influential PLDI Paper Award | Charles Leiserson | 2008 |
| IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing | Most Original Paper | Charles Leiserson | 1996 |
| Usenix | NSDI - Best Student Paper | Arthur Berger | 2005 |
| Usenix | NSDI Best Paper | Hari Balakrishnan | 2005 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) | NSERC Doctoral Prize | Erik Demaine | 2003 |
| Department of Defense | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow | Harr Chen | 2005 |
| Microsoft Research | New Faculty Fellowship Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| Society for Mathematical Psychology | New Investigator Award | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2005 |
| Okawa Foundation | Okawa prize | Tomaso Poggio | 2009 |
| Forbes Magazine | One of 8 innovators driving the Silicon Valley wealth explosion | Michael Stonebraker | 1998 |
| United Kingdom | Order of Merit | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| University of Minnesota | Outstanding Achievement Award | Arvind | 2008 |
| IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Outstanding Paper | Joshua Tenenbaum | 1997 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member | Brian Williams | 2006 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2004 |
| International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology | Outstanding paper | Tommi Jaakkola | 1997 |
| ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS | PODC 2004 Best Student Paper (with Rui Fan) | Nancy Lynch | 2004 |
| ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS | PODC 2006 Best Student Paper (with Rui Fan) | Nancy Lynch | 2006 |
| Packard Foundation | Packard Fellowship | Piotr Indyk | 2003 |
| International Symposium on Information Theory | Plenary Talk | Peter Shor | 2000 |
| Ninth Salvà i Campillo Awards | Premio Telecom Europa | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | President | Randall Davis | 1995 |
| National Science Foundation | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 1985 |
| Institute of Physics | President's Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2006 |
| Digital Arts Online | President’s Award for outstanding contribution to creativity | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Rademacher Lecture Series | Silvio Micali | 2005 |
| Rank Prize Fund | Rank Prize | Berthold Horn | 1989 |
| ACM | Recognition of Service Award | Charles Leiserson | 1997 |
| Google | Research Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2005 |
| Xerox | Research Fellowship | Ce Liu | 2007 |
| IEEE | Richard W. Hamming Medal | David Clark | 1998 |
| The International Mathematical Union | Rolf Nevanlinna Prize | Peter Shor | 1998 |
| ACM | SIGCOMM Award | Dina Katabi | 2008 |
| ACM | SIGMOD Innovation Award | Michael Stonebraker | 1992 |
| ACM | SIGOPS - Mark Weiser Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2001 |
| ACM | SIGOPS - SOSP Hall of Fame Award | Butler Lampson | 2005 |
| UC Berkeley | Samuel Silver Research Award | Seth Teller | 1992 |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science | Saul Gorn Memorial Lecturer | David Clark | 2004 |
| IEEE | Signal Processing Society| Distinguished Lecturer | Victor Zue | 1994 |
| Royal Society of Engineers | Sir Frank Whittle Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| Fortune | Small Business Hall of Fame | Tim Berners-Lee | |
| ACM | Software System Award | Michael Stonebraker | 1988 |
| NASA | Software of the Year Award | Brian Williams | 1999 |
| NASA | Space Act Award | Brian Williams | 1999 |
| Special Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | Special Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| MIT EECS | Spira Teaching Award | Erik Demaine | 2004 |
| MIT EECS | Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award | Manolis Kellis | 2003 |
| MIT | Steven Wade Neiterman Award | Jack Costanza | 2006 |
| The Alliance for Public Technology | Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Award | Judy Brewer | 2003 |
| DARPA | Sustained Excellence Award | Victor Zue | 1998 |
| Technology Review | TR35 - Top 35 Innovator Under the Age of 35 | Manolis Kellis | 2006 |
| IEEE | Taylor L. Booth Award | Hal Abelson | 1995 |
| Forbes Magazine | Technology's 100 Highest Rollers | Tom Leighton | 2001 |
| Sigma Xi | The Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention | Tim Berners-Lee | 2005 |
| Google | The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship | Raluca Ada Popa | 2008 |
| International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | The Influential Paper Award | Randall Davis | 2006 |
| The Finnish Technology Award Foundation | The Millennium Technology Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Eurographics | The Young Researcher Award | Fredo Durand | 2004 |
| US News | Top 10 Technology Innovators | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| Science Digest | Top 100 American Scientists Under Age 40 | Randall Davis | 1984 |
| Speech Technology Magazine | Top Ten Speech Leaders Award | Victor Zue | 2001 |
| Genome Technology | Top Young PIs | Manolis Kellis | 2006 |
| CWI | Van Wijngaarden Award | Nancy Lynch | 2006 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Visiting Scholar | Hal Abelson | 2003 |
| MIT EECS | William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Prize | Zeeshan Syed | 2003 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2004 |
| ONR | Young Investigator Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1993 |
