Anant Agarwal, President of edX - Harvard and MIT’s online learning venture - taught the first edX course, drawing 155,000 students from 162 countries. At MIT, he has served as the director of CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and founded Virtual Machine Works. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is a founder of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. He also lead the development of Raw, Sparcle, and Alewife.
His work on Organic Computing was selected by Scientific American as one of 10 World Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named one of 12 Bostonians changing the world by Boston Globe Magazine in 2012. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor’s from IIT Madras. He hacks on WebSim, a web-based circuits laboratory, in his spare time.
Professor Anant Agarwal on MITx
Added: 3/11/13MITx 6002x Introduction
Added: 3/11/13MITx 6002x Introduction
Added: 3/11/13MITx 6002x Introduction
Added: 3/11/13
