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Created to research and develop artificial intelligence.
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J.C.R. Licklider of MIT Writes a series of memos describing a "Galactic Network" in which people can access data from anywhere.
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The Laboratory of computer science, also nicknamed project MAC, was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense to design a computer system for the public.
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The Compatible Time-Sharing System ran on IBM 7090 and was created F.J. Corbato and would later be integral ITS (CSAIL MIT).
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After years of writing code for the PDP-1, Greenblatt officially joins the MIT Computer Lab.
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MULTICS was created to be a more efficient system than the CTSS
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MACLISP was a coding language used for computers running ITS but was later made for all other PDP-10 computers.
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A side development of project MAC, Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) was started to introduce a more sophisticated process management system and provide an inter-machine filesystem.
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Richard Greenblatt creates the first artificial intelligence program that could truly challenge humans in chess.
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Stallman was put onto the AI group's side task, to develop ITS while the more senior members worked on MULTICS.
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Honeywell announces a computing system that used MULTICS and began selling to companies such as General Motors and Ford.
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Richard Greenblatt invents the LISP machine, a computer designed to run and program completely in LISP. These machines were a revolution in personal computing as they were the first computer that could be ran by a single user on a single tower rather than a room of computing hardware.
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Worried MIT would steal credit for his idea of the GNU, Stallman leaves to continue to develop and improve GNU software on his own.
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MULTICS had been phased out by Honeywell in the late 1980's after conversion to Intel's system had been unsuccessful. The CGI Group Inc. is the last customer to buy and run a MULTICS system.
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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) was created to combine the AI Lab and the Computer science lab, since the two were working on similar projects and using similar resources.
