MIT SAIL Lab Timeline

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  • Start of computing research at MIT

    Vannevar Bush started researching differential analyzers.

  • AI Project Started

  • James Slagle Made SAINT

    SAINT could solve basic integrations and was the first lisp program.

  • TECO was created

    TECO is a text editor made at MIT by Greenblat and Murphy

  • CSAIL Formed

    Alongside Project MAC, the AI lab along with the LCS were married together to horm CSAIL

  • LCS Formed

    LCS The Laboratory for Computer Science was formed alongside the MAC project, and joined the AI lab in forming CSAIL to work ont he MAC project

  • Project MAC Launched

    Project on mathematics and computation.

  • Vision Project

    Cameras were connected to computers to attempt AI vision projects, but it was discovered that machine/computer vision was a very thing to do.

  • ELIZA was created

    ELIZA was a pattern-matching program that could hold conversations.

  • Symore Papert invents LOGO

    LOGO was an easy to understand and use programming language

  • MIT AI Lab Formed

    The MIT AI Lab was formed to gain more space, as project MAC was deemed to small to be given more space.

  • MIT AI Project Splits off from project MAC

  • Many of the tool builders leave the MIT labs to find jobs at other companies

  • MOBOT Lab Formed

  • MIT Media Lab Formed