Project MAC
<project> A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding
director was {MIT} Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for
Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and
Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were
Corbato's {Multics} development and {Marvin Minsky}'s
{Artificial Intelligence} Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC
hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer
scientists to Cambridge to use {CTSS} and to discuss the
future of computing.
Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information
Processing Techniques Office of the {Advanced Research
Projects Agency} (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense.
See also {Early PL/I}, {MacLisp}, {MACSYMA}, {MDL},
{Multipop-68}, {OCAL}.
(1997-01-29)