Notable Awards

As the largest lab at MIT with the highest percentage of faculty who are members of the National Academies, it is not surprising that so many researchers at CSAIL have been honored for their work.

Over the years, our faculty and students have received some of the world's most prestigious prizes and awards, as well as memberships in organizations like NAE and NAS and fellowships from professional groups like AAAS, ACM and IEEE. CSAIL boasts the following highly distinguished honors out of the hundreds our researchers have received.

"[Berners-Lee is recognized for] inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the web to scale.”

—Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Tim Berners-Lee was honored with the Turing Award for his work inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and "the fundamental protocols and algorithms [that allowed] the web to scale."

Photo: Henry Thomas

Turing Awards

"The Nobel Prize of Computing"

"[Genius grant recipient] Regina Barzilay is poised to play a leading role in creating new models that advance the capacity of computers to harness the power of human language data."

—The MacArthur Foundation

MacArthur Fellowships

"Genius Grants"

Josh Tenebaum (2019)
Regina Barzilay (2017)
Dina Katabi (2013)
Daniela Rus (2002)
Peter Shor (1999)
Tim Berners-Lee (1998)
Jack Wisdom (1994)
Richard Stallman (1990)

"[Rolf Navanlinna Prize winner Constantinos Daskalakis is honored for] transforming our understanding of the computational complexity of fundamental problems in markets, auctions, equilibria, and other economic structures.”

—International Mathematical Union (IMU)

Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory. Photo credit: Bryce Vickmark

Photo: Bryce Vickmark

Rolf Nevanlinna Prize

"Outstanding Contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences"

Constantinos Daskalakis (2018)
Madhu Sudan (2002)
Peter Shor (1998)