Project MAC

Project MAC, later the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), was a research laboratory at MIT. Project MAC would become famous for groundbreaking research in operating systems, artificial intelligence, and the theory of computation. Its contemporaries included Project Genie at Berkeley, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and (somewhat later) USC's Information Sciences Institute.

Related Topics:
MIT - Operating system - Artificial intelligence - Theory of computation - Project Genie - Berkeley - Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - USC - Information Sciences Institute

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The acronym "MAC" is glossed variously as Multiple Access Computer, Machine Aided Cognition, and in later years Minsky Against Corby (a joke based on two of the principal figures of two semi-competing research groups in the lab).

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