MIT CSAIL

By jogorilla1

  • MIT AI Lab is Founded

    MIT AI Lab is Founded
    Created to research and develop artificial intelligence.

  • Galactic Network

    J.C.R. Licklider of MIT Writes a series of memos describing a "Galactic Network" in which people can access data from anywhere.

  • The Laboratory of computer science created

    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.

  • First Edition of CTSS

    The Compatible Time-Sharing System ran on IBM 7090 and was created F.J. Corbato and would later be integral ITS (CSAIL MIT).

  • Richard Greenblatt joins Project MAC

    Richard Greenblatt joins Project MAC
    After years of writing code for the PDP-1, Greenblatt officially joins the MIT Computer Lab.

  • MULTICS is created

    MULTICS is created
    MULTICS was created to be a more efficient system than the CTSS

  • Greenblatt creates MACLISP

    MACLISP was a coding language used for computers running ITS but was later made for all other PDP-10 computers.

  • ITS created

    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.

  • MAC HACK is created

    MAC HACK is created
    Richard Greenblatt creates the first artificial intelligence program that could truly challenge humans in chess.

  • Richard Stallman joins Project MAC

    Stallman was put onto the AI group's side task, to develop ITS while the more senior members worked on MULTICS.

  • MULTICS Commercially intergrated

    Honeywell announces a computing system that used MULTICS and began selling to companies such as General Motors and Ford.

  • LISP machine invented

    LISP machine invented
    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.

  • Stallman Creates GNU and leaves MIT

    Worried MIT would steal credit for his idea of the GNU, Stallman leaves to continue to develop and improve GNU software on his own.

  • Last MULTICS system

    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.

  • CSAIL is created

    CSAIL is created
    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.