All Awards
| Organization | Award Name | Member | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE | John von Neumann | Jack Dennis | 2013 |
| National Academy of Inventors | Fellow | Barbara Liskov | 2013 |
| IAPP | Privacy Leadership Award | Daniel Weitzner | 2013 |
| EATCS | Presburger Award | Erik Demaine | 2013 |
| ACM | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2013 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Anant Agarwal | 2013 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Silvio Micali | 2013 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 2013 |
| IEEE | James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award | Victor Zue | 2013 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | David Clark | 2012 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | Karen Sollins | 2012 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Karen Sollins | 2012 |
| ACM | SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award | Barbara Liskov | 2012 |
| Technical University of Catalonia | Honorary Doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2012 |
| Okawa Foundation | Okawa prize | Victor Zue | 2012 |
| MIT EECS | Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship | Piotr Indyk | 2012 |
| NSF | Career Award | Adam Chlipala | 2012 |
| Forbes Magazine | Top 15 education innovators | Anant Agarwal | 2012 |
| Science Atlantic | Outstanding Student, Hall of Fame | Erik Demaine | 2012 |
| National Cyber Security Hall of Fame | National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Award | Ronald Rivest | 2012 |
| Newsweek/Daily Beast | Digital Power Index | Daniel Weitzner | 2012 |
| ICRA | Best Paper Finalist | John Leonard | 2012 |
| Microsoft | New Faculty Fellowship Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2012 |
| Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology | Nash Distinguished Lecture | Andrew Lo | 2012 |
| The Simons Foundation | Simons Investigator | Shafi Goldwasser | 2012 |
| Journal of Investment Management | Harry M. Markowitz Award | Andrew Lo | 2012 |
| IEEE Computer Society | Harry Goode Memorial Award | Arvind | 2012 |
| ACM/EATCS | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing | Nir Shavit | 2012 |
| Invent Now | Inductee into National Inventor's Hall of Fame | Barbara Liskov | 2012 |
| Computer History Museum | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 2012 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Barbara Liskov | 2012 |
| ICRA | Best Student Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2012 |
| BIOROB | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2012 |
| Robot Film Festival | Best Robot Actor Award | Daniela Rus | 2012 |
| DARPA | Young Faculty Award | Wojciech Matusik | 2012 |
| ISCB | Fellow | Bonnie Berger | 2012 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Charles Leiserson | 2012 |
| Technology Review | 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World | Piotr Indyk | 2012 |
| ACM | Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award | Hal Abelson | 2012 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Frans Kaashoek | 2012 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Arvind | 2012 |
| Radcliffe Institute | Fellow | Nancy Lynch | 2012 |
| MacVicar | Fellow | Leslie Kaelbling | 2012 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Bonnie Berger | 2012 |
| ACM-W | Named 2012-2013 Athena Lecturer | Nancy Lynch | 2012 |
| Time Magazine | Named one of 2012's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" | Andrew Lo | 2012 |
| Evolutionary Design and Optimization Group | Best Paper | Una-May O'Reilly | 2012 |
| NSF | Alan T. Waterman Award | Scott Aaronson | 2012 |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame | Inductee into National Inventor's Hall of Fame | Barbara Liskov | 2012 |
| Sloan Foundation | Fellow | Wojciech Matusik | 2012 |
| SIAM | Research Fellow | Alan Edelman | 2012 |
| Natioanl Instititute of Health | NIH Director's Margaret Pittman Lecture for Outstanding Scientific Achievement & Lectureship | Bonnie Berger | 2012 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 2012 |
| ICRA | Automation Best Paper Award Finalist | John Leonard | 2011 |
| NASA | Software for Public Release Award | Daniela Rus | 2011 |
| Singapore Research | Prof of Autonomous Systems Chair | Daniela Rus | 2011 |
| ICRA | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2011 |
| PRIMA | Best Student Paper | Daniela Rus | 2011 |
| Oxford University | Lifetime Achievement Award | David Clark | 2011 |
| ACM | Fellow | Dave Gifford | 2011 |
| Scientific American | 10 World Changing Ideas | Anant Agarwal | 2011 |
| MIT EECS | Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship | Dina Katabi | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | Best Paper Award | Dina Katabi | 2011 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Peter Shor | 2011 |
| CMU and Tokyo University of Technology | Katayanagi Award for Research Excellence | Barbara Liskov | 2011 |
| Athens Technology Center for Research and Education (AIT) | Niki Award | Manolis Kellis | 2011 |
| ACM | Distinguished Scientist | Li Shiuan Peh | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCSE | Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education | Hal Abelson | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Eric Schwartz | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Garrett Wollman | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Jay Sekora | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | John Beane | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Jonathan Proulx | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Arthur Prokosch | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Jason Dorfman | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Jason Dorfman | 2011 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Colleen Russell | 2011 |
| MICCAI | Young Investigator Award | Polina Golland | 2011 |
| IEEE | Inductee into Intelligent System Magazine's Hall of Fame | Tim Berners-Lee | 2011 |
| MIT | MacVicar Faculty Fellowship Award | Patrick Winston | 2011 |
| ACM/IEEE | Best Paper | Hari Balakrishnan | 2011 |
| ACM/IEEE | Best Paper | Arvind | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | Robert Morris | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | David Karger | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2011 |
| ACM SIGCOMM | “Test of Time” Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2011 |
| ACM/IEEE | Best Paper | Srini Devadas | 2011 |
| RSA | Lifetime Achievement Award | Ronald Rivest | 2011 |
| MIT EECS | Jamieson teaching prize | Rob Miller | 2011 |
| MIT | Smullin Prize for teaching | Polina Golland | 2011 |
| NSF | Career Award | Nickolai Zeldovich | 2011 |
| SIGMETRICS | Best Paper Award | Jonathan Kelner | 2011 |
| STOC | Best Paper Award | Jonathan Kelner | 2011 |
| MIT | Edgerton Award | Jonathan Kelner | 2011 |
| ACM/SIGARCH - IEEE-CS/TCCA | Most Influential Paper Award | Joel Emer | 2011 |
| Purdue University | Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Alumni Award | Joel Emer | 2011 |
| ACM | NVIDIA Best Paper Presentation | Fredo Durand | 2011 |
| ACM | ACM infosys foundation Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2011 |
| Mathematical Association of America | Polya Lecturer | Erik Demaine | 2011 |
| Smithsonian | Pieces in permanent collection | Erik Demaine | 2011 |
| Gauss Center for Supercomputing | Best Paper Award | Jack Dennis | 2011 |
| MIT EECS | Spira Teaching Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2011 |
| IBM | Open Collaborative Faculty Award | Boris Katz | 2011 |
| IEEE | Robotics Pioneer Award | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 2011 |
| Northwestern University, Chicago | Honorary Doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2011 |
| University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland | Honorary Doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2011 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Leonard T. Troland Award | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2011 |
| Harvard | Honorary Doctor of Science | Tim Berners-Lee | 2011 |
| Bilbao Web Summit | DANA Web Awards | Tim Berners-Lee | 2011 |
| The Gorbachev Foundation | The Mikhail Gorbachev Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2011 |
| UNESCO | Niels Bohr Gold Medal Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2011 |
| SIAM | Outstanding Paper | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2011 |
| MIT | Ford Professor of Engineering | Silvio Micali | 2011 |
| IEEE | Emanuel R. Piore Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 2011 |
| Brown University | Honorary Doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2010 |
| Robotics: Science and Systems | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2010 |
| MICCAI | Young Investigator Award | Polina Golland | 2010 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best paper | Eric Grimson | 2010 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best paper | John Fisher | 2010 |
| ACM | SIGOPS - Mark Weiser Award | Robert Morris | 2010 |
| UIST | Best Paper Award | Rob Miller | 2010 |
| MIT | Excellence Award: Greening MIT (Inaugural recipient) | Britton 'Bryt' Bradley | 2010 |
| NSF | United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | Manolis Kellis | 2010 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Jonathan Kelner | 2010 |
| NIST and NSA | National Computer Systems Security Award | Jerry Saltzer | 2010 |
| Mathematical Association of America | Polya Lecturer | Erik Demaine | 2010 |
| NSF | Career Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2010 |
| International Conference on Autonomic Computing | Best student paper | Anant Agarwal | 2010 |
| MIT EECS | Jamieson teaching prize | Anant Agarwal | 2010 |
| MIT CSAIL | United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | Scott Aaronson | 2010 |
| IBM | Open Collaborative Faculty Award | Boris Katz | 2010 |
| IEEE | Emanuel R. Piore Award | Nancy Lynch | 2010 |
| Franklin Institute | Benjamin Franklin Medal | Shafi Goldwasser | 2010 |
| MIT EECS | Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching | Daniel Jackson | 2010 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2010 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2010 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Nancy Lynch | 2010 |
| IROS | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| NASA | Software for Public Release Award | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| IROS | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| Eckert | Mauchly Award | Joel Emer | 2009 |
| IBM | Open Collaborative Faculty Award | Boris Katz | 2009 |
| Brooklyn College | Brooklyn College Distinguished Alumna Award | Nancy Lynch | 2009 |
| IEEE | Computer Society Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award | Berthold Horn | 2009 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Bruce Tidor | 2009 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Tomaso Poggio | 2009 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Thomas Knight Jr | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | David Karger | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | Martin Rinard | 2009 |
| DARPA | Young Faculty Award | Russ Tedrake | 2009 |
| Robotics: Science and Systems | Best Paper Award | Russ Tedrake | 2009 |
| MIT EECS | Junior Bose Teaching Award | Scott Aaronson | 2009 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2009 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| NEC | Computers and Communications Award | Ronald Rivest | 2009 |
| Okawa Foundation | Okawa prize | Tomaso Poggio | 2009 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Mihai Patrascu | 2009 |
| ACM SPAA | Best Paper | Charles Leiserson | 2009 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Kristina Lantheaume | 2009 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Joanne Hanley | 2009 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Sustained Excellence | Jack Costanza | 2009 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Foreign Associate | Tim Berners-Lee | 2009 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Daniela Rus | 2009 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Barbara Liskov | 2009 |
| MIT EECS | MacVicar Faculty Fellow | Daniel Jackson | 2009 |
| Sloan Foundation | Fellow | Scott Aaronson | 2009 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Jack Dennis | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | Joel Moses | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | Michel Goemans | 2009 |
| ACM | Fellow | Hari Balakrishnan | 2009 |
| ICRA | Best Paper Finalist | Daniela Rus | 2008 |
| SAB | Best Paper Award | Daniela Rus | 2008 |
| Game Theory Society | Game Theory and Computer Science Prize | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2008 |
| NSF | Career Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2008 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Brian Williams | 2008 |
| University of Minnesota | Outstanding Achievement Award | Arvind | 2008 |
| ACM | SIGCOMM Award | Dina Katabi | 2008 |
| Academia Sinica | Academician | Victor Zue | 2008 |
| ACM SIGPLAN | Lifetime Achievement Award | Barbara Liskov | 2008 |
| ACM SIGPLAN | Most Influential PLDI Paper Award | Charles Leiserson | 2008 |
| MIT | Jerome Saltzer Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| AAAI | Classic Paper Award, Honorable Mention | Rodney Brooks | 2008 |
| ACM | Athena Lecturer, Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) | Shafi Goldwasser | 2008 |
| The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship | Ghinwa Choueiter | 2008 | |
| The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship | Raluca Ada Popa | 2008 | |
| Microsoft Research | New Faculty Fellowship Award | Russ Tedrake | 2008 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Jack Wisdom | 2008 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Silvio Micali | 2008 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Tom Leighton | 2008 |
| ACM | Impact Paper Award | Barbara Liskov | 2007 |
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Best Paper Award | John Leonard | 2007 |
| MICCAI | Young Investigator Award | Polina Golland | 2007 |
| Microsoft | Research Fellowship | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2007 |
| ACM | Fellow | Anant Agarwal | 2007 |
| Xerox | Research Fellowship | Ce Liu | 2007 |
| International Speech Communication Association | ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement | Victor Zue | 2007 |
| INFORMS | Computing Society Prize for best paper | Peter Shor | 2007 |
| ACM | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing | Nancy Lynch | 2007 |
| Francqui Foundation | International Francqui Chair | Erik Demaine | 2007 |
| Dalhousie University | Honorary Doctor of Laws | Erik Demaine | 2007 |
| National Science Foundation | CAREER award | Manolis Kellis | 2007 |
| VLDB | Best Paper Award | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| MIT | Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professorship | Manolis Kellis | 2007 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Tommi Jaakkola | 2007 |
| CAAD 07 | Best Presentation | Seth Teller | 2007 |
| Digital Arts Online | President’s Award for outstanding contribution to creativity | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| MITX | Leadership Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| Microsoft | Jim Gray's Sort Benchmark Home Page | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2007 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan | 2007 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Myron King | 2007 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Michael Pellauer | 2007 |
| MEMOCODE 2007 | HW/SW Co-design Contest | Nirav Dave | 2007 |
| United Kingdom | Order of Merit | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| MIT | Louis B. Smullins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | Rob Miller | 2007 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Sustained Excellence | Victoria Palay | 2007 |
| ACM | Knuth Prize | Nancy Lynch | 2007 |
| International Association or Cryptologic Research (IACR) | Fellow | Shafi Goldwasser | 2007 |
| John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Fellow | Michel Goemans | 2007 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2007 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award | Brian Williams | 2007 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Charles Stark Draper Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| IBM | Faculty Research Award | Sam Madden | 2007 |
| California Institute of Technology | Distinguished Alumni Award | Peter Shor | 2007 |
| The Marconi Society | Marconi Prize | Ronald Rivest | 2007 |
| MIT EECS | William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Prize | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2007 |
| NSF | Career Award | Polina Golland | 2007 |
| ACM | Best Student Paper Award | Konstantinos Daskalakis | 2006 |
| IEEE Micro | Top Picks for ``Unbounded Transactional Memory'' | Charles Leiserson | 2006 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member | Brian Williams | 2006 |
| British Computer Society | Lovelace Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2006 |
| High-Performance Computing Challenge | Class 2 (productivity) - Best Overall Productivity | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2006 |
| Harvard Medical School| Center for Biomedical Informatics | Innovation in Personally Controlled Health Record Infrastructure | Peter Szolovits | 2006 |
| Genome Technology | Top Young PIs | Manolis Kellis | 2006 |
| ACM | Best Demo Award, SenSys Conf. | Sam Madden | 2006 |
| ACM SIGACT | PODC 2006 Best Student Paper (with Rui Fan) | Nancy Lynch | 2006 |
| Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) | Foreign Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 2006 |
| ACM | Best Demo Award, SenSys Conf. | Hari Balakrishnan | 2006 |
| IEEE | Int'l. Conf. on Acoustics| Speech| and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - – Best Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2006 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Edward Adelson | 2006 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | William Freeman | 2006 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Ce Liu | 2006 |
| MIT Graduate Student Council | Graduate Teaching Award | Patrick Winston | 2006 |
| IFIP TC11 | Kristian Beckman Award | Butler Lampson | 2006 |
| International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | The Influential Paper Award | Randall Davis | 2006 |
| Institute of Physics | President's Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2006 |
| ACM SIGACT | Distinguished Service Prize | Tom Leighton | 2006 |
| IEEE | "Intelligent Systems ""AI's to Watch""" | Regina Barzilay | 2006 |
| Technology Review | TR35 - Top 35 Innovator Under the Age of 35 | Manolis Kellis | 2006 |
| MIT | Steven Wade Neiterman Award | Jack Costanza | 2006 |
| Australian Academy of Science | Corresponding Member | Rodney Brooks | 2006 |
| CWI | Van Wijngaarden Award | Nancy Lynch | 2006 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2006 |
| Microsoft | Research Fellowship | Ce Liu | 2006 |
| Microsoft | Research Fellowship | Regina Barzilay | 2006 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Erik Demaine | 2006 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Fredo Durand | 2006 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Dina Katabi | 2006 |
| University of California Berkeley| CS Division | Distinguished Alumni Award | Silvio Micali | 2006 |
| University of California Berkeley| CS Division | Distinguished Alumni Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 2006 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Edward Adelson | 2006 |
| NSF | Career Award | Nicholas Roy | 2006 |
| ICRA | Best Student Paper Finalist | John Leonard | 2005 |
| MIT | Smullin Prize for teaching | Anant Agarwal | 2005 |
| MIT | Distinguished Alumnus (1964) Career Development Chair | Manolis Kellis | 2005 |
| Journal Networks | Glover-Klingman Prize| best paper published during the year | Thomas Magnanti | 2005 |
| High-Performance Computing Challenge | Class 2 (productivity) - Finalist | Bradley C. Kuszmaul | 2005 |
| UC Berkeley | David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize | Scott Aaronson | 2005 |
| Research Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2005 | |
| 8th Int’l. Conference on Sensor Fusion | Best Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2005 |
| American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering | Fellow | Peter Szolovits | 2005 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Rademacher Lecture Series | Silvio Micali | 2005 |
| ETH Zurich | Honorary doctorate | Barbara Liskov | 2005 |
| ACM | SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award | Butler Lampson | 2005 |
| MIT Academic Resource Center | Freshman Advisor of the Year | Thomas Greene | 2005 |
| MIT Department of Athletics| Physical Education and Recreation | Instructor of the Year 2005 | Fern DeOliveira | 2005 |
| Die Quadriga | Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2005 |
| Financial Times | Lifetime Achievement Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2005 |
| IEEE | Longuet-Higgins Award | Edward Adelson | 2005 |
| Technology Review | TR35 - Top 35 Innovator Under the Age of 35 | Sam Madden | 2005 |
| Technology Review | TR35 - Top 35 Innovator Under the Age of 35 | Regina Barzilay | 2005 |
| UIST | Best Paper Award | Rob Miller | 2005 |
| Institute of Medicine of the National Academies | Member | Peter Szolovits | 2005 |
| Fundación Rafael del Pino | Fellow | Luis Perez-Breva | 2005 |
| Society for Mathematical Psychology | New Investigator Award | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2005 |
| Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange | Lifetime member | Ronald Rivest | 2005 |
| Mathematical Association of America | Lester R. Ford Award | Alan Edelman | 2005 |
| Microsoft Research | New Faculty Fellowship Award | Fredo Durand | 2005 |
| Sigma Xi | The Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention | Tim Berners-Lee | 2005 |
| Usenix | NSDI - Best Student Paper | Arthur Berger | 2005 |
| Usenix | NSDI - Best Student Paper | Dina Katabi | 2005 |
| Usenix | NSDI Best Paper | Hari Balakrishnan | 2005 |
| Politecnico di Torino | Honorary Degree | Robert Fano | 2005 |
| Department of Defense | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow | Harr Chen | 2005 |
| John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Fellow | Madhu Sudan | 2005 |
| NVIDIA | Fellowship | Jiawen Chen | 2005 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Luke Zettlemoyer | 2005 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Michael Collins | 2005 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Peter Shor | 2005 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Butler Lampson | 2005 |
| MIT | Edgerton Award | Erik Demaine | 2005 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Jonathan Ragan-Kelley | 2005 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Jiawen Chen | 2005 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Harr Chen | 2005 |
| NSF | Career Award | Sam Madden | 2005 |
| NSF | Career Award | Regina Barzilay | 2005 |
| NSF | Career Award | Rob Miller | 2005 |
| NSF | Career Award | Fredo Durand | 2005 |
| NSF | Career Award | Dina Katabi | 2005 |
| ACM Sensys | Best Paper Award | John Leonard | 2004 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Nir Shavit | 2004 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Joel Emer | 2004 |
| ACM | Fellow | Joel Emer | 2004 |
| Guinness World Records | Largest beamforming acoustic microphone array (LOUD) based on the Raw parallel processor | Anant Agarwal | 2004 |
| NASA | Group Achievement Award | Brian Williams | 2004 |
| IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity | Best Student Paper Award | Scott Aaronson | 2004 |
| ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 204 | Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award | Scott Aaronson | 2004 |
| ACM SIGACT | PODC 2004 Best Student Paper (with Rui Fan) | Nancy Lynch | 2004 |
| ACM SenSys | Best paper | Seth Teller | 2004 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2004 |
| New York Academy of Sciences | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 2004 |
| VLDB | Best Paper Award | Sam Madden | 2004 |
| ACM SenSys | Best paper | Daniela Rus | 2004 |
| Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing | Best Paper | Michael Collins | 2004 |
| Special Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | Special Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Eurographics | The Young Researcher Award | Fredo Durand | 2004 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Michael Collins | 2004 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Michael Collins | 2004 |
| MIT School of Science | Dean's Educational and Student Advising Award | Michel Goemans | 2004 |
| 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 |
| International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation | Fellow | Una-May O'Reilly | 2004 |
| International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks | Best Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2004 |
| Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi | Distinguished Alumnus Award | Madhu Sudan | 2004 |
| IEEE | Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2004 |
| International Neural Network Society | Gabor Award | Tomaso Poggio | 2004 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award | John Leonard | 2004 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Charles Stark Draper Prize | Butler Lampson | 2004 |
| MIT | 1K Preliminary Award | Alan Edelman | 2004 |
| Popular Science | Brilliant 10 | Erik Demaine | 2004 |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science | Saul Gorn Memorial Lecturer | David Clark | 2004 |
| Computing Research Association | Distinguished Service Award | David Clark | 2004 |
| Order the British Empire | Knight Commander | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Royal Photographic Society | Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| The Economist | Innovation Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| Computer History Museum | Fellow | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| American Philosophical Society | Fellow | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| HLT/NAACL 2004 | Best Paper Award | Regina Barzilay | 2004 |
| Ninth Salvà i Campillo Awards | Premio Telecom Europa | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| The Finnish Technology Award Foundation | The Millennium Technology Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2004 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2004 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | Robert Morris | 2004 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2004 |
| IEEE | William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award | David Karger | 2004 |
| RSA | Mathematics Award | Silvio Micali | 2004 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 2004 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Ronald Rivest | 2004 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Shafi Goldwasser | 2004 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Kevin Matulef | 2004 |
| MIT EECS | Spira Teaching Award | Erik Demaine | 2004 |
| NSF | Career Award | Michael Collins | 2004 |
| NSF | Career Award | Erik Demaine | 2004 |
| ACM SIGIR | Best student paper Award | Boris Katz | 2003 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Tommi Jaakkola | 2003 |
| World Technology Network | Finalist| World Technology Award for Space | Brian Williams | 2003 |
| MIT EECS | Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award | Manolis Kellis | 2003 |
| MIT EECS | Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award | Dina Katabi | 2003 |
| UC Berkeley | C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award | Sam Madden | 2003 |
| IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity | Best Student Paper Award | Scott Aaronson | 2003 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best student paper (natural systems category) | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2003 |
| Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | Best student paper | Joshua Tenenbaum | 2003 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences | Collin Stultz | 2003 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Member | Harr Chen | 2003 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Award for Initiatives in Research | David Karger | 2003 |
| MIT | Frank Perkins Award for Excellent in Graduate Advising | Randall Davis | 2003 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Piotr Indyk | 2003 |
| Packard Foundation | Packard Fellowship | Piotr Indyk | 2003 |
| American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | Best Student Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2003 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) | NSERC Doctoral Prize | Erik Demaine | 2003 |
| ACM SIGIR | Best student paper Award | Gregory Marton | 2003 |
| IBM | Faculty Research Award | Daniel Jackson | 2003 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Erik Demaine | 2003 |
| Technology Review | 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World | Nancy Lynch | 2003 |
| California Institute of Technology | Distinguished Alumni Award | F. J. Corbato | 2003 |
| The Alliance for Public Technology | Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Award | Judy Brewer | 2003 |
| University of California Berkeley| CS Division | Distinguished Alumni Award | Madhu Sudan | 2003 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Visiting Scholar | Hal Abelson | 2003 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Grace Hopper Lecturer | Nancy Lynch | 2003 |
| IBM | Eclipse Innovation | Martin Rinard | 2003 |
| IBM | Eclipse Innovation | Saman Amarasinghe | 2003 |
| MIT | Edgerton Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2003 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Amy Williams | 2003 |
| MIT EECS | William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Prize | Zeeshan Syed | 2003 |
| MIT EECS | MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation Award | Zeeshan Syed | 2003 |
| Technology Review | 100 Brilliant Young Innovators | Jovan Popovic | 2003 |
| NSF | Career Award | Robert Morris | 2003 |
| Friedman Family | Fellowship | Daniela Rus | 2002 |
| King Faisal Foundation | International Prize in Science | Peter Shor | 2002 |
| International Symposium on Information Theory | Plenary Talk | Shafi Goldwasser | 2002 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Best paper award | Tommi Jaakkola | 2002 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Tommi Jaakkola | 2002 |
| UC Berkeley | C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award | Scott Aaronson | 2002 |
| Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing | Best Paper | Michael Collins | 2002 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Award for Initiatives in Research | David Karger | 2002 |
| ACSAC | Outstanding Student Paper Award | Srini Devadas | 2002 |
| AAS/DPS | Brouwer Award | Jack Wisdom | 2002 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Hari Balakrishnan | 2002 |
| Symposium on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 02 | Best Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2002 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Daniela Rus | 2002 |
| MIT School of Engineering | Infinite Mile Award for Excellence | Britton 'Bryt' Bradley | 2002 |
| USENIX LISA conference | Best Paper Award | Robert Beverly | 2002 |
| Speech Technology Magazine | Lifetime Achievement Award | Victor Zue | 2002 |
| RSA | Albert Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| The International Mathematical Union | Rolf Nevanlinna Prize | Madhu Sudan | 2002 |
| NSF | Graduate Research Fellow | Mitchell Peabody | 2002 |
| USENIX Security | Best Student Paper Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2002 |
| USENIX Security | Best Student Paper Award | David Karger | 2002 |
| Louisiana State University | Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer | Joel Moses | 2002 |
| International Congress of Mathematics at Beijin | Invited to give the plenary talk | Shafi Goldwasser | 2002 |
| Harry J. Murphy Catalyst | Award | Judy Brewer | 2002 |
| The Marconi Society | Marconi Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| Columbia University | Honorary Doctor of Law | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa | Honorary Doctor Scientiae (DSc) | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| The Prince of Asturias Foundation | Award for Technical and Scientific Research | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| MIT EECS | Junior Bose Teaching Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2002 |
| MIT EECS | Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Prize | Heidi Pan | 2002 |
| Technology Review | 100 Brilliant Young Innovators | Tim Berners-Lee | 2002 |
| NSF | Career Award | Piotr Indyk | 2002 |
| ACM | Maurice Wilkes Award | Anant Agarwal | 2001 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Nancy Lynch | 2001 |
| ACM | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing | Nancy Lynch | 2001 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Distinguished Paper Award | Brian Williams | 2001 |
| MIT | Irwin Sizer Award for Significant Innovations in MIT Education | Thomas Magnanti | 2001 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Nancy Lynch | 2001 |
| VSMM | Best paper | Seth Teller | 2001 |
| Forbes Magazine | Technology's 100 Highest Rollers | Tom Leighton | 2001 |
| MIT | Entrepreneurship Award | Tom Leighton | 2001 |
| IEEE CVPR | Best Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 2001 |
| ACM | SIGOPS - Mark Weiser Award | Frans Kaashoek | 2001 |
| University of Minnesota | Distinguished Alumni Award | Arvind | 2001 |
| Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing | Best paper award in High Performance Systems Category | Srini Devadas | 2001 |
| Royal Society | Fellow | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| Oxford University | Honorary Doctor of Science | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| Speech Technology Magazine | Top Ten Speech Leaders Award | Victor Zue | 2001 |
| Royal Society of Engineers | Sir Frank Whittle Medal | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| SIAGLA prize | Best Paper | Alan Edelman | 2001 |
| MIT EECS | Spira Teaching Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2001 |
| IBM | Partnership Award | Boris Katz | 2000 |
| University of Pavia | Laurea Honoris Causa in Computer Science | Tomaso Poggio | 2000 |
| International Symposium on Information Theory | Plenary Talk | Peter Shor | 2000 |
| NASA | Group Achievement Award | Brian Williams | 2000 |
| IEEE | Babbage Award | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| US News | Top 10 Technology Innovators | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| Mass | High Tech Award | Tom Leighton | 2000 |
| FOCS | Best student paper | Piotr Indyk | 2000 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Eric Grimson | 2000 |
| IBM | Faculty Research Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 2000 |
| AMS | Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize | Michel Goemans | 2000 |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Best Student Paper | Rob Miller | 2000 |
| CMU | Dickson Prize in Science | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| NASA | Group Achievement Award | Brian Williams | 1999 |
| NASA | Software of the Year Award | Brian Williams | 1999 |
| NASA | Space Act Award | Brian Williams | 1999 |
| IEEE | Best Paper Award (Image and Multimedimensional Signal | Tom Leighton | 1999 |
| I.I.T. Kanpur | Distinguished Alumnus Award | Arvind | 1999 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Bruce Tidor | 1999 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| SIAM | Activity Group on Optimization Prize | Michel Goemans | 1999 |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Outstanding Paper | Rob Miller | 1999 |
| MIT | Institute Professor | Joel Moses | 1999 |
| Technology Review | 100 Brilliant Young Innovators | Bonnie Berger | 1999 |
| NSF | Career Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 1999 |
| NSF | Career Award | Madhu Sudan | 1999 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 2st Place in Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship for Cilkchess | Charles Leiserson | 1998 |
| QCMC | International Quantum Communications Award | Peter Shor | 1998 |
| UC Berkeley | C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 1998 |
| Biophysical Society | Dayoff Award | Bonnie Berger | 1998 |
| ACM SIGPLAN | 1st Prize in the ICPF Programming Contest | Charles Leiserson | 1998 |
| Computer Reseller News | Hall of Fame Member | Michael Stonebraker | 1998 |
| Forbes Magazine | One of 8 innovators driving the Silicon Valley wealth explosion | Michael Stonebraker | 1998 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Daniela Rus | 1998 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Tim Berners-Lee | 1998 |
| RSA | Mathematics Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 1998 |
| The International Mathematical Union | Rolf Nevanlinna Prize | Peter Shor | 1998 |
| MIT EECS | Baker Award | Martin Rinard | 1998 |
| NEC | Computers and Communications Award | F. J. Corbato | 1998 |
| Sloan Foundation | Fellow | Seth Teller | 1997 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 2st Place in Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship for Cilkchess | Charles Leiserson | 1997 |
| International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology | Outstanding paper | Tommi Jaakkola | 1997 |
| National Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Best Paper Award | Brian Williams | 1997 |
| IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Outstanding Paper | Joshua Tenenbaum | 1997 |
| Harvard Medical School | James Tolbert Shipley Prize | Collin Stultz | 1997 |
| ACM | Recognition of Service Award | Charles Leiserson | 1997 |
| Packard Foundation | Packard Fellowship | David Karger | 1997 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Leslie Kaelbling | 1997 |
| MIT EECS | Spira Teaching Award | Frans Kaashoek | 1997 |
| Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | Outstanding paper | Tommi Jaakkola | 1996 |
| ACM | Fellow | Nancy Lynch | 1996 |
| IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing | Most Original Paper | Charles Leiserson | 1996 |
| ACM | Recognition of Service Award | Charles Leiserson | 1996 |
| Cornell | College of Engineering Teaching Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1996 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1996 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 1996 |
| SIAM | Activity Group on Optimization Prize | Michel Goemans | 1996 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 1st Place in Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship for Cilkchess | Charles Leiserson | 1996 |
| Society of Women Engineers | Achievement Award | Barbara Liskov | 1996 |
| NSF | Career Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1996 |
| NSF | Career Award | Daniela Rus | 1996 |
| NSF | Career Award | Michel Goemans | 1996 |
| NEC | Computers and Communications Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 1996 |
| NSF | Career Award | Seth Teller | 1995 |
| NASA | Ames Team Excellence Award | Brian Williams | 1995 |
| NASA | Space Act Award | Peter Szolovits | 1995 |
| 8th Int. Conf. on Radiation Effects in Insulators (with Hobbs Sreeram Jesurum). | Best Paper Award (Image and Multimedimensional Signal | Bonnie Berger | 1995 |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Member | Rob Miller | 1995 |
| ACM | Recognition of Service Award | Charles Leiserson | 1995 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 2nd Prize in the World Computer Chess Championship | Charles Leiserson | 1995 |
| Cornell Association for Computer Science Undergraduates | Faculty of the Year | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1995 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | President | Randall Davis | 1995 |
| Sloan Foundation | Research Fellowship | Michel Goemans | 1995 |
| IEEE | Taylor L. Booth Award | Hal Abelson | 1995 |
| USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Best Student Paper | Hari Balakrishnan | 1995 |
| NSF | Career Award | David Karger | 1995 |
| NSF | Career Award | Bonnie Berger | 1995 |
| Operations Research Society of America | Kimball Medal for Distinguished Service | Thomas Magnanti | 1994 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 3nd Place in the International Computer Chess Championship | Charles Leiserson | 1994 |
| IEEE | Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award | Arvind | 1994 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Jack Wisdom | 1994 |
| IEEE | Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems | Jerry Saltzer | 1994 |
| International Conference on Supercomputing | Best Paper | Anant Agarwal | 1993 |
| International Conference on Parallel Processing | Most Original Paper | Anant Agarwal | 1993 |
| Operations Research Society of America | Lanchester Prize| Best Publication in Operations Research | Thomas Magnanti | 1993 |
| International Computer Chess Assocation | 3nd Place in the International Computer Chess Championship | Charles Leiserson | 1993 |
| ONR | Young Investigator Award | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 1993 |
| MIT EECS | Adler Scholar | Hal Abelson | 1993 |
| UC Berkeley | Samuel Silver Research Award | Seth Teller | 1992 |
| ACM | SIGMOD Innovation Award | Michael Stonebraker | 1992 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Peter Szolovits | 1992 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | Jerry Saltzer | 1992 |
| MIT EECS | MacVicar Faculty Fellow | Hal Abelson | 1992 |
| MIT EECS | Junior Bose Teaching Award | Hal Abelson | 1992 |
| MIT EECS | Junior Bose Teaching Award | Gerald Sussman | 1992 |
| NSF | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Anant Agarwal | 1991 |
| MIT | James N. Murphy Award | Be Blackburn | 1991 |
| ACM | Karl V. Karlstrom | Gerald Sussman | 1991 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Rodney Brooks | 1991 |
| MIT EECS | Adler Scholar | Charles Leiserson | 1991 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Thomas Magnanti | 1991 |
| MIT | George M. Sprowles Prize | Bonnie Berger | 1990 |
| Association of American Publishers | Best 1990 Professional and Scholarly Book in Computer Science and Data Processing | Charles Leiserson | 1990 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 1990 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 1990 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Randall Davis | 1990 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Berthold Horn | 1990 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 1990 |
| MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Fellows Program | Richard Stallman | 1990 |
| Rank Prize Fund | Rank Prize | Berthold Horn | 1989 |
| National Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Best Paper Award | Brian Williams | 1988 |
| ACM | Software System Award | Michael Stonebraker | 1988 |
| NSF | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Jack Wisdom | 1988 |
| MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab | Merit Award for Basic Research in Artificial Intelligence | Brian Williams | 1987 |
| AAS | Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | Jack Wisdom | 1987 |
| IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing | Best Presentation Award | Charles Leiserson | 1986 |
| AAS/DPS | Harold C. Urey Prize | Jack Wisdom | 1986 |
| Boston Computer Society | AI Award | Randall Davis | 1986 |
| IEEE Trans. on Acoustics| Speech and Signal Processing | Best Paper Award | Alan Willsky | 1986 |
| City of Genoa| Italy | Columbian Gold Medal | Robert Fano | 1986 |
| IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing | Best Presentation Award | Charles Leiserson | 1985 |
| National Science Foundation | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Tomas Lozano-Perez | 1985 |
| National Science Foundation | Presidential Young Investigator Award | Charles Leiserson | 1985 |
| American College of Medical Informatics | Fellow | Peter Szolovits | 1984 |
| IEEE/ACM | Eckert-Mauchly Award | Jack Dennis | 1984 |
| Science Digest | Top 100 American Scientists Under Age 40 | Randall Davis | 1984 |
| John and Fannie Hertz Foundation | Doctoral Thesis Award | Charles Leiserson | 1982 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 1982 |
| IEEE | Computing Society Computer Pioneer Award | F. J. Corbato | 1982 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Gerald Sussman | 1981 |
| IEEE | Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award | Alan Willsky | 1980 |
| American Federation of Information Processing Societies | Harry Goode Memorial Award | F. J. Corbato | 1980 |
| ASCE | Alfred Noble Prize | Alan Willsky | 1979 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Member | Robert Fano | 1978 |
| John and Fannie Hertz Foundation | Hertz Fellowship | Charles Leiserson | 1977 |
| IEEE | James H. Mulligan| Jr. Education Medal | Robert Fano | 1977 |
| IEEE | Claude E. Shannon Award | Robert Fano | 1976 |
| Rice University | Claude W. Heaps Prize | Jack Wisdom | 1975 |
| American Automatic Control Council | Donald P. Eckman Award | Alan Willsky | 1975 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Computers and Thought Award | Patrick Winston | 1973 |
| IEEE | Computer Society W. Wallace Mc Dowell Award | F. J. Corbato | 1966 |
| The Technion | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| Université Catholique de Louvain | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| University of Montreal | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| Linköping University | Honorary Doctorate | Thomas Magnanti | |
| MIT | Billard Award for Distinguished Service | Thomas Magnanti | |
| National Academy of Engineering | Gallery of Women in Engineering | Mary (Missy) Cummings | |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Arvind | 2008 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Tim Berners-Lee | 2007 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Silvio Micali | 2007 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 2007 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Frans Kaashoek | 2006 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf | Sam Madden | 2006 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf | Hari Balakrishnan | 2006 |
| ACM | Fellow | Arvind | 2006 |
| ACM | Fellow | Charles Leiserson | 2006 |
| ACM | Fellow | John Guttag | 2006 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Shafi Goldwasser | 2005 |
| IEEE | John von Neumann Medal | Michael Stonebraker | 2005 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | John Guttag | 2005 |
| ACM | Fellow | Rodney Brooks | 2005 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Rodney Brooks | 2004 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Victor Zue | 2004 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Tom Leighton | 2004 |
| IEEE | John von Neumann Medal | Barbara Liskov | 2004 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Eric Grimson | 2004 |
| ACM | Fellow | Frans Kaashoek | 2004 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Silvio Micali | 2003 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Tom Leighton | 2003 |
| ACM | Fellow | Bonnie Berger | 2003 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award| Honorable Mention | Dina Katabi | 2003 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Richard Stallman | 2002 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Berthold Horn | 2002 |
| IEEE | Info Theory Society - Best Paper | Madhu Sudan | 2002 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 2002 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | David Clark | 2002 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award| Honorable Mention | Rob Miller | 2002 |
| The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan | Japan Prize | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| IEEE | John von Neumann Medal | Butler Lampson | 2001 |
| IEEE | Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications | David Clark | 2001 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Madhu Sudan | 2001 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Shafi Goldwasser | 2001 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Tim Berners-Lee | 2001 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Shafi Goldwasser | 2001 |
| ACM | Fellow | David Clark | 2001 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Gerald Sussman | 2000 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf | Hari Balakrishnan | 2000 |
| IEEE | Kobayashi Award | Ronald Rivest | 2000 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Thomas Magnanti | 2000 |
| IBM | Partnership Award | Michel Goemans | 1999 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Peter Shor | 1999 |
| ACM | Fellow | Albert R. Meyer | 1999 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Michael Stonebraker | 1998 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Jerry Saltzer | 1998 |
| IEEE | Richard W. Hamming Medal | David Clark | 1998 |
| IEEE | Fellow | David Clark | 1998 |
| DARPA | Sustained Excellence Award | Victor Zue | 1998 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Hari Balakrishnan | 1998 |
| IEEE | Kobayashi Award | Tim Berners-Lee | 1997 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | David Clark | 1996 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 1996 |
| ACM | Grace Murray Hopper Award | Shafi Goldwasser | 1996 |
| ACM | Fellow | Barbara Liskov | 1996 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf | Hari Balakrishnan | 1995 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Hal Abelson | 1995 |
| IEEE | Award in International Communication | David Clark | 1995 |
| IEEE | Signal Processing Society| Distinguished Lecturer | Victor Zue | 1994 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Arvind | 1994 |
| ACM | Fellow | Butler Lampson | 1994 |
| ACM | Fellow | Gerald Sussman | 1994 |
| ACM | Fellow | Ronald Rivest | 1994 |
| ACM | Fellow | Jack Dennis | 1994 |
| ACM | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 1994 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Silvio Micali | 1993 |
| Gödel | Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science | Shafi Goldwasser | 1993 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Ronald Rivest | 1993 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Jack Wisdom | 1992 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Barbara Liskov | 1992 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Ronald Rivest | 1990 |
| ACM | SIGCOMM Award | David Clark | 1990 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Joel Moses | 1990 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Barbara Liskov | 1989 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Joel Moses | 1987 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Albert R. Meyer | 1987 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Joel Moses | 1986 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Alan Willsky | 1985 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Butler Lampson | 1984 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Jerry Saltzer | 1983 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | F. J. Corbato | 1976 |
| IEEE | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 1975 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | F. J. Corbato | 1975 |
| National Academy of Engineering | Member | Robert Fano | 1973 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Jack Dennis | 1973 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Fellow | Robert Fano | 1958 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Robert Fano | 1954 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Ronald Rivest | 2002 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| SOSP '99 | Frans Kaashoek | 1999 |
| ACM | Best Paper Award| SOSP '99 | Robert Morris | 1999 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | David Karger | 1994 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Madhu Sudan | 1993 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | Butler Lampson | 1992 |
| ACM | A.M. Turing Award | F. J. Corbato | 1990 |
| Acoustical Society of America | Fellow | Victor Zue | 1989 |
| ACM | Doctoral Dissertation Award | Charles Leiserson | 1982 |
| IEEE | Fellow | Isaac Kohane | |
| Fortune | Small Business Hall of Fame | Tim Berners-Lee |
