Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1979, some of the students at MIT were Tim Anderson, Joel Berez, Marc Blank, Mike Broos, Scott Cutler, Bruce Daniels, Stu Galley, Dave Lebling and Chris Reeve. Among the researchers employed by the MIT at this time were J. C. R. Licklider und Al Vezza. Those ten people together founded Infocom on June 22, 1979. The programming language MDL in which the original mainframe Zork was written was developed at MIT (by, among others, Daniels, Galley and Reeve).

The MIT campus served as a model for the only horror-themed game produced by Infocom, The Lurking Horror.