[ih] A revolution in Internet point-of-view - Was Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Wed Apr 29 23:00:48 PDT 2026


Jack Haverty wrote:
> - Lick's vision was of pervasive computers somehow all communicating
> with each other to assist humans; he funded MIT to create Project Mac;
> MAC stood for either "Man and Computer" or "Machine Aided Cognition"

Many sources claim "Multiple Access Computer/Computing" and "Machine
Aided Cognition".  The former was the Multics part of Project MAC, and
the latter was the AI group.  I have also seen "Mathematics and
Computation" for the Mathlab and Macsyma part.


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