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  Project MAC
       
           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)