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        As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 16, 2002
                                               REGISTRATION NO. 333-____________


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                 EMC CORPORATION

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             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

                                  Massachusetts
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         (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

                                   04-2680009
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                     (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                          176 South Street, Hopkinton,
                               Massachusetts 01748
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                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

                     EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan
                             Stock Option Agreement
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                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                              Paul T. Dacier, Esq.
                    Senior Vice President and General Counsel
                                 EMC Corporation
                                171 South Street
                         Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748
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                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)

                                 (508) 435-1000
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          (Telephone Number, Including Area Code for Agent for Service)


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

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<Caption>

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                                                                  Proposed Maximum            Proposed              Amount of
                                             Amount to be         Offering Price Per       Maximum Aggregate       Registration
    Title of Securities to be               Registered (1)           Share (2)             Offering Price (3)          Fee (3)
          Registered
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<S>                                         <C>                   <C>                      <C>                     <C>
EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan        80,000,000                $3.97                 $317,600,000          $29,219.20
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
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Stock Option Agreement                          10,000                  $3.97                 $     39,700          $     3.65
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
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</Table>


(1)   This Registration Statement covers (a) 80,000,000 shares of the
      Registrant's common stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"),
      that may be issued upon exercise of options granted under the EMC
      Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan (the "2001 Plan") and (b) 10,000 shares
      of Common Stock that may be issued upon exercise of a non-qualified stock
      option granted pursuant to a stock option agreement between the Registrant
      and the Clerk of the Registrant (the "Stock Option Agreement"). Also
      registered hereunder is such additional number of shares of Common Stock,
      presently indeterminable, as may be necessary to satisfy the antidilution
      provisions of each of the 2001 Plan and the Stock Option Agreement to
      which this Registration Statement relates.

(2)   Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee
      pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average of the high and low
      sale prices of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on
      October 9, 2002.

(3)   Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act of
      1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of determining the registration
      fee.

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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

     EMC Corporation (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by reference the
following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"):

     (a)  the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending
          December 31, 2001;

     (b)  the Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
          March 31, 2002 and June 30, 2002 and any amendments thereto;

     (c)  the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission
          on August 13, 2002; and

     (d)  the description of the Registrant's common stock (the "Common Stock")
          which is contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
          8-A filed by the Registrant under Section 12 of the Securities
          Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), on March 4,
          1988, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of
          updating such description.

     In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold under this
Registration Statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superceded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also
is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supercedes
such earlier statement. Any statement so modified or superceded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superceded, to constitute part of this
Registration Statement.

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

     The legality of the shares of Common Stock being registered pursuant to
this Registration Statement will be passed upon for the Registrant by Paul T.
Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Registrant. As of
September 30, 2002, Mr. Dacier was the beneficial owner (for purposes of the
Exchange Act) of 360,188 shares of Common Stock and is eligible to participate
in the Registrant's stock option and stock purchase plans.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Section 67 of Chapter 156B of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts authorizes a Massachusetts corporation to indemnify any director,
officer, employee or other agent of the corporation, any person who serves at
its request as a director, officer, employee or other agent of another
organization, or any person who serves at its request in any capacity with
respect to any employee benefit plan, to whatever extent specified in or
authorized by (i) the articles of organization, (ii) a by-law adopted by the
stockholders or (iii) a vote adopted by the holders of a majority of the shares
of stock entitled to vote on the election of directors.

     Article 6(k) of the Registrant's Restated Articles of Organization, as
amended, provides as follows:

     No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director to the extent provided by applicable law notwithstanding any
provision of law imposing such liability; provided, however, that to the extent,
and only to the extent, required by Section 13(b)(1 1/2) or any successor
provision of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law, this provision shall
not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under sections 61 or 62 of the Massachusetts
Business

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Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit. This provision shall not be construed in any way so
as to impose or create liability. The forgoing provisions of this Article 6(k)
shall not eliminate the liability of a director for any act or omission
occurring prior to the date on which this Article 6(k) becomes effective. No
amendment to or repeal of this Article 6(k) shall apply to or have any effect on
the liability or alleged liability of any director of the corporation for or
with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such
amendment or repeal.

     In addition, Section 7 of the Registrant's Amended and Restated By-laws,
entitled "Indemnification of Directors and Officers," provides as follows:

     The corporation shall, to the extent legally permissible, indemnify each of
its directors and officers (including persons who act at its request as
directors, officers or trustees of another organization or in any capacity with
respect to any employee benefit plan) against all liabilities and expenses,
including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines
and penalties, and counsel fees, reasonably incurred by such director or officer
in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or other
proceeding, whether civil or criminal, in which such director or officer may be
involved or with which such director or officer may be threatened, while in
office or thereafter, by reason of such individual being or having been such a
director or officer, except with respect to any matter as to which such director
or officer shall have been adjudicated in any proceeding not to have acted in
good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's action was in the
best interests of the corporation (any person serving another organization in
one or more of the indicated capacities at the request of the corporation who
shall have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's
action was in the best interests of such other organization to be deemed as
having acted in such manner with respect to the corporation) or, to the extent
that such matter relates to service with respect to any employee benefit plan,
in the best interests of the participants or beneficiaries of such employee
benefit plan; provided, however, that as to any matter disposed of by a
compromise payment by such director or officer, pursuant to a consent decree or
otherwise, no indemnification either for said payment or for any other expenses
shall be provided unless such compromise shall be approved as in the best
interests of the corporation, after notice that it involves such
indemnification: (a) by a disinterested majority of the directors then in
office; or (b) by a majority of the disinterested directors then in office,
provided that there has been obtained an opinion in writing of independent legal
counsel to the effect that such director or officer appears to have acted in
good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's action was in the
best interests of the corporation; or (c) by the holders of a majority of the
outstanding stock at the time entitled to vote for directors, voting as a single
class, exclusive of any stock owned by any interested director or officer.
Expenses, including counsel fees, reasonably incurred by any director or officer
in connection with the defense or disposition of any such action, suit or other
proceeding may be paid from time to time by the corporation in advance of the
final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by such director or
officer to repay to the corporation the amounts so paid by the corporation if it
is ultimately determined that indemnification for such expenses is not
authorized under this Section 7. The right of indemnification hereby provided
shall not be exclusive of or affect any other rights to which any director or
officer may be entitled. As used in this Section, the terms "director" and
"officer" include their respective heirs, executors and administrators, and an
"interested" director or officer is one against whom in such capacity the
proceedings in question or another proceeding on the same or similar grounds is
then pending. Nothing contained in this Section shall affect any rights to
indemnification to which corporate personnel other than directors or officers
may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

     The following exhibits are filed as part of or incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement:

     4.1  EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan, as amended to date.
          Incorporated by reference from the Registrant's Quarterly Report on
          Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Commission
          on July 30, 2002.

     4.2  Form of Stock Option Agreement.

     5.1  Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
          of EMC Corporation, as to the legality of the securities being
          registered.

     23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.


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     23.2 Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
          of EMC Corporation (contained in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to
          this Registration Statement).

     24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this
          Registration Statement).

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS

     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
          post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any
          material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
          previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
          change to such information in the registration statement;

     (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
          Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be
          deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
          offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
          shall be deemed to be the initial BONA FIDE offering thereof;

     (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
          of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
          termination of the offering;

     (4)  That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
          Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
          Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
          (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
          annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
          of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration
          statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating
          to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
          at that time shall be deemed to be the initial BONA FIDE offering
          thereof; and

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this registration
statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized in the Town of Hopkinton, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on
October 16, 2002.

                                  EMC CORPORATION

                                  By: /S/ Paul T. Dacier
                                  -----------------------------------------
                                  Paul T. Dacier
                                  Senior Vice President and General Counsel

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below hereby severally constitutes and
appoints Joseph M. Tucci, William J. Teuber, Jr. and Paul T. Dacier, and each of
them singly, with the power to act without the other, as attorneys-in-fact, each
with the power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any
amendment to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys- in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

<Table>
<Caption>

        SIGNATURES                                         TITLE                                   DATE
        ----------                                         -----                                   ----
<S>                                             <C>                                          <C>
    /s/ Michael C. Ruettgers                    Executive Chairman of the Board              October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         of Directors
    MICHAEL C. RUETTGERS


    /s/ Joseph M. Tucci                         Chief Executive Officer,                     October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         President and Director (PRINCIPAL
    JOSEPH M. TUCCI                             EXECUTIVE OFFICER)


    /s/ William J. Teuber, Jr.                  Executive Vice President and                 October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         Chief Financial Officer
    WILLIAM J. TEUBER, JR.                      (PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER)


    /s/ Mark A. Link                            Vice President and Chief                     October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         Accounting Officer
    MARK A. LINK                                (PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER)

    /s/ Michael J. Cronin
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    MICHAEL J. CRONIN

    /s/ Gail Deegan
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    GAIL DEEGAN

</Table>

             [SIGNATURE PAGE TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8]

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<Table>
<Caption>

        SIGNATURES                                         TITLE                                   DATE
        ----------                                         -----                                   ----
<S>                                             <C>                                          <C>

    /s/ John R. Egan
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    JOHN R. EGAN

    /s/ W. Paul Fitzgerald
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    W. PAUL FITZGERALD


    /s/ Windle B. Priem
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    WINDLE B. PRIEM


---------------------------------------         Director                                     October __, 2002
    ALFRED M. ZEIEN

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             [SIGNATURE PAGE TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8]


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

4.1  EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan, as amended to date. Incorporated by
     reference from the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
     period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Commission on July 30, 2002.

4.2  Form of Stock Option Agreement.

5.1  Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of EMC
     Corporation, as to the legality of the securities being registered.

23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.

23.2 Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of EMC
     Corporation (contained in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this
     Registration Statement).

24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this Registration
     Statement).
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 16, 2002
                                               REGISTRATION NO. 333-____________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                 EMC CORPORATION

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             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

                                  Massachusetts
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

                                   04-2680009
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                          176 South Street, Hopkinton,
                               Massachusetts 01748
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

                     EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan
                             Stock Option Agreement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                              Paul T. Dacier, Esq.
                    Senior Vice President and General Counsel
                                 EMC Corporation
                                171 South Street
                         Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)

                                 (508) 435-1000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Telephone Number, Including Area Code for Agent for Service)

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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                                                                  Proposed Maximum            Proposed              Amount of
                                             Amount to be         Offering Price Per       Maximum Aggregate       Registration
    Title of Securities to be               Registered (1)           Share (2)             Offering Price (3)          Fee (3)
          Registered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan        80,000,000                $3.97                 $317,600,000          $29,219.20
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stock Option Agreement                          10,000                  $3.97                 $     39,700          $     3.65
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
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(1)   This Registration Statement covers (a) 80,000,000 shares of the
      Registrant's common stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"),
      that may be issued upon exercise of options granted under the EMC
      Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan (the "2001 Plan") and (b) 10,000 shares
      of Common Stock that may be issued upon exercise of a non-qualified stock
      option granted pursuant to a stock option agreement between the Registrant
      and the Clerk of the Registrant (the "Stock Option Agreement"). Also
      registered hereunder is such additional number of shares of Common Stock,
      presently indeterminable, as may be necessary to satisfy the antidilution
      provisions of each of the 2001 Plan and the Stock Option Agreement to
      which this Registration Statement relates.

(2)   Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee
      pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average of the high and low
      sale prices of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on
      October 9, 2002.

(3)   Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act of
      1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of determining the registration
      fee.
PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

     EMC Corporation (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by reference the
following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"):

     (a)  the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending
          December 31, 2001;

     (b)  the Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
          March 31, 2002 and June 30, 2002 and any amendments thereto;

     (c)  the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission
          on August 13, 2002; and

     (d)  the description of the Registrant's common stock (the "Common Stock")
          which is contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
          8-A filed by the Registrant under Section 12 of the Securities
          Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), on March 4,
          1988, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of
          updating such description.

     In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold under this
Registration Statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or
superceded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also
is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supercedes
such earlier statement. Any statement so modified or superceded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superceded, to constitute part of this
Registration Statement.

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

     The legality of the shares of Common Stock being registered pursuant to
this Registration Statement will be passed upon for the Registrant by Paul T.
Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Registrant. As of
September 30, 2002, Mr. Dacier was the beneficial owner (for purposes of the
Exchange Act) of 360,188 shares of Common Stock and is eligible to participate
in the Registrant's stock option and stock purchase plans.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Section 67 of Chapter 156B of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts authorizes a Massachusetts corporation to indemnify any director,
officer, employee or other agent of the corporation, any person who serves at
its request as a director, officer, employee or other agent of another
organization, or any person who serves at its request in any capacity with
respect to any employee benefit plan, to whatever extent specified in or
authorized by (i) the articles of organization, (ii) a by-law adopted by the
stockholders or (iii) a vote adopted by the holders of a majority of the shares
of stock entitled to vote on the election of directors.

     Article 6(k) of the Registrant's Restated Articles of Organization, as
amended, provides as follows:

     No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the
corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director to the extent provided by applicable law notwithstanding any
provision of law imposing such liability; provided, however, that to the extent,
and only to the extent, required by Section 13(b)(1 1/2) or any successor
provision of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law, this provision shall
not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under sections 61 or 62 of the Massachusetts
Business
Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit. This provision shall not be construed in any way so
as to impose or create liability. The forgoing provisions of this Article 6(k)
shall not eliminate the liability of a director for any act or omission
occurring prior to the date on which this Article 6(k) becomes effective. No
amendment to or repeal of this Article 6(k) shall apply to or have any effect on
the liability or alleged liability of any director of the corporation for or
with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such
amendment or repeal.

     In addition, Section 7 of the Registrant's Amended and Restated By-laws,
entitled "Indemnification of Directors and Officers," provides as follows:

     The corporation shall, to the extent legally permissible, indemnify each of
its directors and officers (including persons who act at its request as
directors, officers or trustees of another organization or in any capacity with
respect to any employee benefit plan) against all liabilities and expenses,
including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines
and penalties, and counsel fees, reasonably incurred by such director or officer
in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or other
proceeding, whether civil or criminal, in which such director or officer may be
involved or with which such director or officer may be threatened, while in
office or thereafter, by reason of such individual being or having been such a
director or officer, except with respect to any matter as to which such director
or officer shall have been adjudicated in any proceeding not to have acted in
good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's action was in the
best interests of the corporation (any person serving another organization in
one or more of the indicated capacities at the request of the corporation who
shall have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's
action was in the best interests of such other organization to be deemed as
having acted in such manner with respect to the corporation) or, to the extent
that such matter relates to service with respect to any employee benefit plan,
in the best interests of the participants or beneficiaries of such employee
benefit plan; provided, however, that as to any matter disposed of by a
compromise payment by such director or officer, pursuant to a consent decree or
otherwise, no indemnification either for said payment or for any other expenses
shall be provided unless such compromise shall be approved as in the best
interests of the corporation, after notice that it involves such
indemnification: (a) by a disinterested majority of the directors then in
office; or (b) by a majority of the disinterested directors then in office,
provided that there has been obtained an opinion in writing of independent legal
counsel to the effect that such director or officer appears to have acted in
good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's action was in the
best interests of the corporation; or (c) by the holders of a majority of the
outstanding stock at the time entitled to vote for directors, voting as a single
class, exclusive of any stock owned by any interested director or officer.
Expenses, including counsel fees, reasonably incurred by any director or officer
in connection with the defense or disposition of any such action, suit or other
proceeding may be paid from time to time by the corporation in advance of the
final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by such director or
officer to repay to the corporation the amounts so paid by the corporation if it
is ultimately determined that indemnification for such expenses is not
authorized under this Section 7. The right of indemnification hereby provided
shall not be exclusive of or affect any other rights to which any director or
officer may be entitled. As used in this Section, the terms "director" and
"officer" include their respective heirs, executors and administrators, and an
"interested" director or officer is one against whom in such capacity the
proceedings in question or another proceeding on the same or similar grounds is
then pending. Nothing contained in this Section shall affect any rights to
indemnification to which corporate personnel other than directors or officers
may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

     The following exhibits are filed as part of or incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement:

     4.1  EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan, as amended to date.
          Incorporated by reference from the Registrant's Quarterly Report on
          Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Commission
          on July 30, 2002.

     4.2  Form of Stock Option Agreement.

     5.1  Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
          of EMC Corporation, as to the legality of the securities being
          registered.

     23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.
23.2 Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
          of EMC Corporation (contained in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to
          this Registration Statement).

     24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this
          Registration Statement).

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS

     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
          post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any
          material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
          previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
          change to such information in the registration statement;

     (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
          Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be
          deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
          offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
          shall be deemed to be the initial BONA FIDE offering thereof;

     (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
          of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
          termination of the offering;

     (4)  That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
          Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
          Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
          (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
          annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
          of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration
          statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating
          to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
          at that time shall be deemed to be the initial BONA FIDE offering
          thereof; and

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this registration
statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized in the Town of Hopkinton, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on
October 16, 2002.

                                  EMC CORPORATION

                                  By: /S/ Paul T. Dacier
                                  -----------------------------------------
                                  Paul T. Dacier
                                  Senior Vice President and General Counsel

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below hereby severally constitutes and
appoints Joseph M. Tucci, William J. Teuber, Jr. and Paul T. Dacier, and each of
them singly, with the power to act without the other, as attorneys-in-fact, each
with the power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any
amendment to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys- in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURES                                         TITLE                                   DATE
        ----------                                         -----                                   ----
/s/ Michael C. Ruettgers                    Executive Chairman of the Board              October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         of Directors
    MICHAEL C. RUETTGERS

    /s/ Joseph M. Tucci                         Chief Executive Officer,                     October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         President and Director (PRINCIPAL
    JOSEPH M. TUCCI                             EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

    /s/ William J. Teuber, Jr.                  Executive Vice President and                 October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         Chief Financial Officer
    WILLIAM J. TEUBER, JR.                      (PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER)

    /s/ Mark A. Link                            Vice President and Chief                     October 16, 2002
---------------------------------------         Accounting Officer
    MARK A. LINK                                (PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER)

    /s/ Michael J. Cronin
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    MICHAEL J. CRONIN

    /s/ Gail Deegan
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    GAIL DEEGAN
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8]
SIGNATURES                                         TITLE                                   DATE
        ----------                                         -----                                   ----
/s/ John R. Egan
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    JOHN R. EGAN

    /s/ W. Paul Fitzgerald
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    W. PAUL FITZGERALD

    /s/ Windle B. Priem
---------------------------------------         Director                                     October 16, 2002
    WINDLE B. PRIEM

---------------------------------------         Director                                     October __, 2002
    ALFRED M. ZEIEN
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8]
EXHIBIT INDEX

4.1  EMC Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan, as amended to date. Incorporated by
     reference from the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
     period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Commission on July 30, 2002.

4.2  Form of Stock Option Agreement.

5.1  Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of EMC
     Corporation, as to the legality of the securities being registered.

23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.

23.2 Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of EMC
     Corporation (contained in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this
     Registration Statement).

24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this Registration
     Statement).