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| | Project MAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Project MAC, later MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, was a research laboratory, started at MIT on July 1, 1963 with initial funding from a two-million-dollar DARPA grant. |
 | | Project MAC's founders -- Fano, Fernando J. Corbato, John McCarthy, and Marvin Minsky, among others -- envisioned the creation of a "computer utility", which would be as reliable as source of computational power as the electric utility was a source of electrical power. |
 | | In 1975, Project MAC was renamed the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), and went on to do further ground-breaking work, including a significant role in the development of the Internet. |
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