# Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

**Published:** July 22, 2026
**Author:** Jane Halpern | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
**Source:** MIT News — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/professor-emeritus-dimitri-bertsekas-influential-computer-scientist-and-

Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and the Fulton Professor of…

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