Project MAC


Project MAC

(project)A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its foundingdirector was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood forMultiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, andMan and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts wereCorbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky'sArtificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAChosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computerscientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss thefuture of computing.

Funding for Project MAC was provided by the InformationProcessing 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.