Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hal Abelson

Portrait by Joi Ito

Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

Hal Abelson
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Room 386, The Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-5856
Fax: (617) 258-8682
Email: hal at MIT dot edu

I am on sabbatical at Google through May 2010. Email is the best way to contact me.

• Stodgy biography for public consumption.
  
• What I'm doing these days
  
• Selected publications
• Obligatory baby picture

Various:

• Paper on information accountability in CACM, June 08. This link is restricted, and is an example of ACM's refusal to practice open-access publishing. Here's an open link to a prepublication draft.

• My new book Blown to Bits, with Harry Lewis and Ken Ledeen, June 2008.

• Student final presentations from my mobile applications course in Spring 2008 and Fall 2008.

• Everyone interested in university education should read Edwin Land's 1957 speech Generation of Greatness.

• An on-line version of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and also a complete series of video lectures, made in 1986, of Gerry Sussman and me teaching the course.

• Some old phonograph records

• Microsoft's first explicit anti-GNU/Linux ad, which appeared in the October 23, 2000, issue of the German language magazine c't.

• Dr. Who at the Stata Center

Last modified: October 18 2009, 9:16 PM