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 ResearchProjects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense.

See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL,

Multipop-68, OCAL.

(1997-01-29)