All Awards
| Organization | Award Name | Member | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sloan Foundation | Fellow | Scott Aaronson | 2009 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Visiting Scholar | Hal Abelson | 2003 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Edward Adelson | 2006 |
| IBM | Eclipse Innovation | Saman Amarasinghe | 2003 |
| University of Minnesota | Outstanding Achievement Award | Arvind | 2008 |
| ACM | Fellow | Hari Balakrishnan | 2009 |
| IEEE | "Intelligent Systems ""AI's to Watch""" | Regina Barzilay | 2006 |
| Usenix | NSDI - Best Student Paper | Arthur Berger | 2005 |
| MIT | George M. Sprowles Prize | Bonnie Berger | 1990 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Foreign Associate | Tim Berners-Lee | 2009 |
| USENIX LISA conference | Best Paper Award | Robert Beverly | 2002 |
| MIT | James N. Murphy Award | Be Blackburn | 1991 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Britton 'Bryt' Bradley | 2002 |
| The Alliance for Public Technology | Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Award | Judy Brewer | 2003 |
| AAAI | Classic Paper Award, Honorable Mention | Rodney Brooks | 2008 |
| Department of Defense | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow | Harr Chen | 2005 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jiawen Chen | 2005 |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science | Saul Gorn Memorial Lecturer | David Clark | 2004 |
| Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing | Best Paper | Michael Collins | 2002 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 1982 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Sustained Excellence | Jack Costanza | 2009 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Gallery of Women in Engineering | Mary (Missy) Cummings | |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2008 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Nirav Dave | 2007 |
| International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | The Influential Paper Award | Randall Davis | 2006 |
| MIT Department of Athletics| Physical Education and Recreation | Instructor of the Year 2005 | Fern DeOliveira | 2005 |
| Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology | Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize | Erik Demaine | 2008 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Jack Dennis | 2009 |
| ACSAC | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Srini Devadas | 2002 |
| Microsoft Research | New Faculty Fellowship Award | Fredo Durand | 2005 |
| Mathematical Association of America | Lester R. Ford Award | Alan Edelman | 2005 |
| Politecnico di Torino | Honorary Degree | Robert Fano | 2005 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | William Freeman | 2006 |
| ACM | Fellow | Michel Goemans | 2009 |
| ACM | Athena Lecturer, Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) | Shafi Goldwasser | 2008 |
| NSF | Career Award | Polina Golland | 2007 |
| MIT Academic Resource Center | Freshman Advisor of the Year | Thomas Greene | 2005 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Eric Grimson | 2000 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | John Guttag | 2005 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Joanne Hanley | 2009 |
| Rank Prize Fund | Rank Prize | Berthold Horn | 1989 |
| FOCS | Best student paper | Piotr Indyk | 2000 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Tommi Jaakkola | 2007 |
| MIT EECS | MacVicar Faculty Fellow | Daniel Jackson | 2009 |
| Research Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2005 | |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Leslie Kaelbling | 1997 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Award for Initiatives in Research | David Karger | 2002 |
| ACM | SIGCOMM Award | Dina Katabi | 2008 |
| ACM | Best Student Paper - SIGIR 2003 | Boris Katz | |
| National Science Foundation | CAREER award | Manolis Kellis | 2007 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Myron King | 2007 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Isaac Kohane | |
| High-Performance Computing Challenge | Class 2 (productivity) - Finalist | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2005 |
| IFIP TC11 | Kristian Beckman Award | Butler Lampson | 2006 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Kristina Lantheaume | 2009 |
| ACM SIGACT | Distinguished Service Prize | Tom Leighton | 2006 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Charles Leiserson | 2009 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award | John Leonard | |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Barbara Liskov | 2009 |
| Xerox | Research Fellowship | Ce Liu | 2007 |
| National Science Foundation | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 1985 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Nancy Lynch | 2001 |
| VLDB | Best Paper Award | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| The Technion | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Vikash Mansinghka | 2009 |
| ACM | Best Student Paper - SIGIR 2003 | Gregory Marton | |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Kevin Matulef | 2004 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Albert R. Meyer | 1987 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Rademacher Lecture Series | Silvio Micali | 2005 |
| MIT | Louis B. Smullins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | Rob Miller | 2007 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | Robert Morris | 2004 |
| ACM | Fellow | Joel Moses | 2009 |
| 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 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Sustained Excellence | Victoria Palay | 2007 |
| MIT EECS | Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Prize | Heidi Pan | 2002 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Mihai Patrascu | 2009 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Mitch Peabody | 2002 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Michael Pellauer | 2007 |
| Okawa Foundation | Okawa prize | Tomaso Poggio | 2009 |
| The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship | Raluca Ada Popa | 2008 | |
| Technology Review | 100 Brilliant Young Innovators | Jovan Popovic | 2003 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2007 |
| IBM | Eclipse Innovation | Martin Rinard | 2003 |
| NEC | Computers and Communications Award | Ronald Rivest | 2009 |
| NSF | Career Award | Nicholas Roy | 2006 |
| ONR | Young Investigator Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1993 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| IEEE | Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems | Jerry Saltzer | 1994 |
| QCMC | International Quantum Communications Award | Peter Shor | 1998 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Richard Stallman | 1990 |
| Computer Reseller News | Hall of Fame Member | Michael Stonebraker | |
| Harvard Medical School | James Tolbert Shipley Prize | Collin Stultz | 1997 |
| ACM | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2009 |
| New York Academy of Sciences | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 2004 |
| MIT EECS | William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Prize | Zeeshan Syed | 2003 |
| NASA | Space Act Award | Peter Szolovits | 1995 |
| MIT | Jerome Saltzer Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| CAAD 07 | Best Presentation | Seth Teller | 2007 |
| Society for Mathematical Psychology | New Investigator Award | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2005 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Bruce Tidor | 1999 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan | 2007 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Amy Williams | 2003 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Brian Williams | 2008 |
| IEEE | Int'l. Conf. on Acoustics| Speech| and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - – Best Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2006 |
| MIT Graduate Student Council | Graduate Teaching Award | Patrick Winston | 2006 |
| Rice University | Claude W. Heaps Prize | Jack Wisdom | 1975 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Luke Zettlemoyer | 2005 |
| Academia Sinica | Academician | Victor Zue | 2008 |
