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
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
(1997-01-29)