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

[Miles Fidelman]

Let's not forget Bob Fano & Fran Corbato and as the first two directors of Project MAC, and CTSS that preceeded Multics.

And there was also the Cambridge Project that focused a lot more on societal implications of computers.  Circa 1970.  Also DoD funded, kind of the computing equivalent of the First Earth Battalion (the men who stared at goats).

Miles

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

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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