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Project MAC Launches

Era: Birth of AI · 1950s–1970s

MIT launched Project MAC in 1963 under Robert Fano to study time-sharing, computation, and machine-aided cognition. The MIT Artificial Intelligence Project, founded in 1959, later participated in it; the two were not a single laboratory founded in 1959.

Robert Fano

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  1. RLE timeline 1960–1979

    MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics · Source type: institutional-archive

    MIT’s own timeline dates Project MAC to 1963, funded through ARPA with Robert M. Fano as first director.

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