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Hal Abelson received an AB from Princeton University and went on to get his PhD in mathematics from MIT. He is currently a principal investigator at MIT CSAIL and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He has been apart of MIT since the early 1970s.
Feb 5, 2024 · CSAIL member Professor Gerald Jay Sussman gives the final lecture of 6.001, which is being retired from the MIT curriculum after the Fall 2007 term. Sussman and Professor Hal Abelson developed the course in 1980; it proved to be one of the most influential undergraduate subjects at MIT.
Hal Abelson Keeping software free-form is arguably one of the most important measures we can take for securing our agency in our increasingly overlapping real and digital worlds.
Feb 1, 2024 · In this episode, CSAIL Professor Hal Abelson has a long history of looking at the importance of Computer Science education and helping shape its future. Listen as he joins Kara Miller in conversation to discuss how AI will shape education moving forward. Hal Abelson, co-director of MIT RAISE, talks to Kara Miller about the impact of AI on ...
As a supporter of free software, Prof. Abelson believes that free software empowers everyone to maintain the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share software, as well as see everything the software is doing. “Look at the debates right now over security,” says Prof. Abelson.
Jul 7, 2015 · CSAIL contributors to the report include professors Hal Abelson and Ron Rivest, PhD student Michael Specter, Information Services and Technology network manager Jeff Schiller, and principal research scientist Daniel Weitzner, who spearheaded the work as director of MIT’s Cybersecurity and Internet Policy Research Initiative, an interdisciplinary program funded by a $15 million grant from the ...
Aug 19, 2010 · The software has provoked much commentary in the technology press, and Google has been trumpeting it as a way to give people direct control of their own phones. But App Inventor is the latest outgrowth of a tradition of MIT research that dates back at least 40 years. The App Inventor project was led by Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor ...
