"For the last three decades, the students, faculty and staff of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), along with the Laboratory's sponsors and industrial partners, have been engaged in an unprecedented adventure -- helping Information Technology swell from a mere curiosity to 10% of the world's industrial economies. To the LCS family, this incredible development is more than a laudable economic feat: It is the excitement of searching for and discovering new and often unexpected knowledge about the generation, processing, communication and uses of information."Michael L. Dertouzos- Director, as quoted in the LCS Research Activities Brochure.