MIT AI Lab software environment
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The MIT AI Lab software environment was an influential early computing ecosystem that fostered pioneering work in artificial intelligence, programming tools, and hacker culture on time-sharing systems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MIT AI Lab computing environment | 1 |
| MIT AI Lab programmers | 1 |
| MIT AI Lab software environment canonical | 1 |
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software environment
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time-sharing computing environment ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gerald Jay Sussman
ⓘ
Guy L. Steele Jr. ⓘ MIT hacks ⓘ
surface form:
MIT hacker community
Marvin Minsky ⓘ Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| basedOnOperatingSystem |
ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System)
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surface form:
Incompatible Timesharing System
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culture |
collaborative development culture
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informal code sharing norms ⓘ |
| developedAt |
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
|
| feature |
extensive text editing tools
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multi-user time-sharing ⓘ open access culture for system source code ⓘ powerful debugging tools ⓘ real-time interaction via terminals ⓘ source code sharing among users ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Lisp machine environments
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Unix-based AI research environments ⓘ |
| influenced |
GNU Emacs
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surface form:
Emacs text editor
Lisp machine operating systems ⓘ hacker ethic ⓘ later time-sharing systems design ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing Emacs development
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influencing Lisp machine development ⓘ influencing hacker culture ⓘ pioneering time-sharing practices ⓘ supporting early artificial intelligence research ⓘ supporting incremental development and debugging ⓘ supporting interactive programming ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier MIT time-sharing experiments ⓘ |
| shortName | MIT AI Lab ITS environment ⓘ |
| supportedProgrammingLanguage |
Algol family
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surface form:
Algol
Assembler ⓘ Fortran ⓘ Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
Logo ⓘ MDL ⓘ Maclisp ⓘ Micro Planner ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ early 1980s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
artificial intelligence research
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computer graphics experiments ⓘ natural language processing research ⓘ programming language experimentation ⓘ robotics research ⓘ |
| usedOn |
PDP-10
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PDP-6 ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
MIT AI Lab programmers