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MIT AI Lab
Extracted from the Wikipedia article MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
AI Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science
In the late 1960s, Minsky's artificial intelligence group sought more space, and was unable to get satisfaction from project director Licklider. Minsky found that although Project MAC as a single entity could not get the additional space he wanted, he could split off to form his own laboratory and then be entitled to more office space. As a result, the MIT AI Lab was formed in 1970, and many of Minsky's AI colleagues left Project MAC to join him in the new laboratory. Programmers such as Richard Stallman, who used TECO to develop EMACS, flourished in the AI Lab during this time. The AI Lab invented Lisp machines, which were commercialized by Symbolics and Lisp Machines Inc. in the 1980s.