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CAC services include facilities management, event planning and support, retail and contracted services.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAC+%28Committee+on+Animal+Care%29" title="CAC (Committee on Animal Care)">CAC (Committee on Animal Care)</a> — <span class="smalltext">MIT's Committee on Animal Care was established to ensure that all MIT, WIBR, and Broad Institute researchers working with animals or making funds available to support other researchers' work with animals comply with federal, state, local, and institutional regulations on animal care. To that end, the CAC inspects animals, animal facilities and laboratories, and reviews all research and teaching exercises which involve vertebrate animals or other tissues before activities are performed.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAES" title="CAES">CAES</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Advanced Educational Services (formerly Center for Advanced Engineering Study)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAMIT" title="CAMIT">CAMIT</a> — <span class="smalltext">Chinese Alumni of MIT</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAMS" title="CAMS">CAMS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Collaboration Accounts Management System of CAMS is a part of MIT's Touchstone single sign-on infrastructure. It is used to register and manage identities for users outside the MIT community who may need to access MIT services.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CANES" title="CANES">CANES</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAN-SPAM" title="CAN-SPAM">CAN-SPAM</a> — <span class="smalltext">Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAO" title="CAO">CAO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Controller's Accounting Office</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAP" title="CAP">CAP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Academic Performanc</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAS" title="CAS">CAS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cost Accounting Standards</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CASE" title="CASE">CASE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (based in Washington, DC)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CASPAR" title="CASPAR">CASPAR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism Rehabilitation</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CAVS" title="CAVS">CAVS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Advanced Visual Studies</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CBA" title="CBA">CBA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Bits and Atoms</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CBE" title="CBE">CBE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Biomedical Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CBI" title="CBI">CBI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Biomedical Innovation</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CBIP" title="CBIP">CBIP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Biological Information Processing</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CC+at+MIT" title="CC at MIT">CC at MIT</a> — <span class="smalltext">Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, a collaboration between MIT and the Underground Railway Theater</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCCOB" title="CCCOB">CCCOB</a> — <span class="smalltext">College Career Centers of Boston</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCI" title="CCI">CCI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Collective Intelligence</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCIS" title="CCIS">CCIS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Intelligent Control Systems</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCNEs" title="CCNEs">CCNEs</a> — <span class="smalltext">Replace this text with one or more definitions for this term. Remember to use a pair of {excerpt} tags to contain the text you want displayed on the glossary index pages.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCOP" title="CCOP">CCOP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Corporation Committee on the Presidency</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCP" title="CCP">CCP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communication, Coordination, and Planning (Group)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCR" title="CCR">CCR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Former acronym for the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (KI) based on the name Center for Cancer Research</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCR+%28Committee+on+Corporate+Relations%29" title="CCR (Committee on Corporate Relations)">CCR (Committee on Corporate Relations)</a> — <span class="smalltext">The mission of the Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) is to create and strengthen mutually beneficial relationships between MIT and corporations and other organizations, measured in part by maximizing the flow of corporate investments to support the basic mission of MIT.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCREMS" title="CCREMS">CCREMS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCS+%28Carbon+Capture+and+Sequestration%29" title="CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration)">CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration)</a> — <span class="smalltext">The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT conducts research into technologies to capture, utilize, and store CO2 from large stationary sources.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCS+%28Center+for+Coordination+Science%29" title="CCS (Center for Coordination Science)">CCS (Center for Coordination Science)</a> — <span class="smalltext">Founded in 1991, the MIT Center for Coordination Science studied how coordination occurs in a variety of different systems, including human organizations, markets, and computer networks. The Center's work emphasized how new information technologies are making it possible to organize businesses—and other organizations—in new ways. In order to place even more emphasis on these new possibilities, the Center was reorganized and renamed in July 2006 to be the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CCSC" title="CCSC">CCSC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Charter School of Cambridge</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDB" title="CDB">CDB</a> — <span class="smalltext">Campus Dining Board</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDC" title="CDC">CDC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Corporation Development Committee</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDD" title="CDD">CDD</a> — <span class="smalltext">City Design and Development (program in the Department of Architecture)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDIO" title="CDIO">CDIO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (interactive learning model in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDO" title="CDO">CDO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computation for Design and Optimization Program</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDP" title="CDP">CDP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cell Decision Processes (MIT has a "Center of Excellence in CDP, with funding from NIH.)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CDSA" title="CDSA">CDSA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Development and Substance Abuse, Office of</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CECI" title="CECI">CECI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Educational Computing Initiatives</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEE" title="CEE">CEE</a> — <span class="smalltext">(Department of) Civil and Environmental Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEE+%28Center+for+Excellence+in+Education%29" title="CEE (Center for Excellence in Education)">CEE (Center for Excellence in Education)</a> — <span class="smalltext">The Center for Excellence in Education nurtures careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology for academically talented high school and college students. It currently sponsors two programs for high school students: the Research Science Institute (RSI) and the USA Biology Olympiad (USABO).</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEESA" title="CEESA">CEESA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Civil & Environmental Engineering Student's Association</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEEW" title="CEEW">CEEW</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cyprus Institute Program for Energy, Environment and Water Resources (program in LFEE)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEHS" title="CEHS">CEHS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Environmental Health Sciences</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEI" title="CEI">CEI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Environmental Initiatives (See LFEE.)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/cell+%28AFS%29" title="cell (AFS)">cell (AFS)</a> — <span class="smalltext">An AFS cell is an administrative unit, with its own set of credentials, organization policies, and filesystem layout. The <tt>athena.mit.edu</tt> is the largest and most well-known cell at MIT.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CENSAM" title="CENSAM">CENSAM</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Centrex" title="Centrex">Centrex</a> — <span class="smalltext">Central Exchange (main telephone system until October 1988)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEP" title="CEP">CEP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Educational Policy. No longer in existence. It was split into the Faculty Policy Committee (FPC) and the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP).</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CERN" title="CERN">CERN</a> — <span class="smalltext">European Organization for Nuclear Research</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Certificate" title="Certificate">Certificate</a> — <span class="smalltext">An electronic credential that allows access to secure web applications.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CESF" title="CESF">CESF</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals (in the Engineering Systems Division)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CET" title="CET">CET</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council on Educational Technology</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CETI" title="CETI">CETI</a> — <span class="smalltext">China Education and Technology Initiative</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CEUE" title="CEUE">CEUE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Commission on Engineering Undergraduate Education</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CFA" title="CFA">CFA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Faculty Administration</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CFA+%28Harvard%29" title="CFA (Harvard)">CFA (Harvard)</a> — <span class="smalltext">(Harvard-Smithsonian) Center for Astrophysics</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CFP" title="CFP">CFP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communications Futures Program</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CFP+%28old%29" title="CFP (old)">CFP (old)</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Fellows Program. Now called Center for Reflective Community Practice.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CFW" title="CFW">CFW</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council on Family and Work</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CG" title="CG">CG</a> — <span class="smalltext">Competency Group (former name of HR team in IS and IS&T)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CGSP" title="CGSP">CGSP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Graduate School Programs (formerly Policy)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CHARGEN" title="CHARGEN">CHARGEN</a> — <span class="smalltext">Charachter Generation protocol</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/ChemE" title="ChemE">ChemE</a> — <span class="smalltext">(Department of) Chemical Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Chocolate+City" title="Chocolate City">Chocolate City</a> — <span class="smalltext">Name used for the top three floors of New House 1</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CHP" title="CHP">CHP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Chemical Hygiene Plan</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CHP+%28Combined+Heat+and+Power%29" title="CHP (Combined Heat and Power)">CHP (Combined Heat and Power)</a> — <span class="smalltext">Also known as Cogeneration, CHP is the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIC" title="CIC">CIC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computationally Intensive Computing (team) in Information Systems and Technology</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIDMS" title="CIDMS">CIDMS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Information-Driven Mechanical Systems</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CI-H" title="CI-H">CI-H</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communication Intensive subject in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (undergraduate requirement)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CII" title="CII">CII</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communications Innovation Institute</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIL" title="CIL">CIL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Industrial Liaison</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CI-M" title="CI-M">CI-M</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communication Intensive subject in the Major (undergraduate requirement)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIMIT" title="CIMIT">CIMIT</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIPD" title="CIPD">CIPD</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Innovation in Product Development</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIS" title="CIS">CIS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for International Studies</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CISR" title="CISR">CISR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Information Systems Research</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CIST" title="CIST">CIST</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Infrastructure Science and Technology</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CJAC" title="CJAC">CJAC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-wide Affairs</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CLC" title="CLC">CLC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cambridge Licensing Commission</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CLI" title="CLI">CLI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CLM" title="CLM">CLM</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Learning and Memory</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CLSS" title="CLSS">CLSS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computerized Literature Search Service (Libraries)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CME" title="CME">CME</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cambridge-MIT Exchange (Program)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CME-MSRI" title="CME-MSRI">CME-MSRI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Chicago Mercantile Exchange-Mathematical Sciences Research Initiative</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CMI" title="CMI">CMI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cambridge-MIT Institute</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/C-MORE" title="C-MORE">C-MORE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CMP" title="CMP">CMP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cooperative Mobility Program</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CMRAE" title="CMRAE">CMRAE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CMS" title="CMS">CMS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Comparative Media Studies</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CMSE" title="CMSE">CMSE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Materials Science and Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COBE" title="COBE">COBE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cosmic Background Explorer (NASA's)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COBRA" title="COBRA">COBRA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COC" title="COC">COC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Curricula</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COCA" title="COCA">COCA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Central America</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COD" title="COD">COD</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Discipline</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Coeus" title="Coeus">Coeus</a> — <span class="smalltext">MIT's electronic proposal and award system.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COFHE" title="COFHE">COFHE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Consortium on Financing Higher Education</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COG" title="COG">COG</a> — <span class="smalltext">Communications Operating Group</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COGR" title="COGR">COGR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council on Governmental Relations</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Cog+Shop" title="Cog Shop">Cog Shop</a> — <span class="smalltext">The Humanoid Robotics Project</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COHH" title="COHH">COHH</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Oceans and Human Health</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COIL" title="COIL">COIL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Innovators Lab (formerly Center for Reflective Community Practice)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COLAB" title="COLAB">COLAB</a> — <span class="smalltext">Cost of Living Advisory Board (formed by the Graduate Student Council)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Collaboration+Account" title="Collaboration Account">Collaboration Account</a> — <span class="smalltext">A way to use Touchstone for people that do not have an MIT Kerberos account, nor an account with other members of the InCommon Federation</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COM" title="COM">COM</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computer Output Microfilm</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Concourse" title="Concourse">Concourse</a> — <span class="smalltext">An experimental first year program</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Confluence" title="Confluence">Confluence</a> — <span class="smalltext">a wiki web application created by Atlassian software.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Container" title="Container">Container</a> — <span class="smalltext">A term used in the context of Microsoft Windows Domains and Group Policy. Containers hold groups of items to which policies and settings can be applied remotely.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COOP" title="COOP">COOP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Harvard Cooperative Society (including the MIT branch known as Tech Coop)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COSO" title="COSO">COSO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (of the Treadway Commission). COSO is a voluntary private-sector organization whose purpose is improving the quality of financial reporting.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COSYSMO" title="COSYSMO">COSYSMO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/COUHES" title="COUHES">COUHES</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CP" title="CP">CP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Campus Police</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CP+%28Chi+Phi%29" title="CP (Chi Phi)">CP (Chi Phi)</a> — <span class="smalltext">One of the fraternities of MIT</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CPA" title="CPA">CPA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Policy Alternatives</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CPRL" title="CPRL">CPRL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CPSE" title="CPSE">CPSE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council on Primary and Secondary Education</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CPSR" title="CPSR">CPSR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Contractor Purchasing System Review (conducted by the federal government)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CPW" title="CPW">CPW</a> — <span class="smalltext">Campus Preview Weekend</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CQI" title="CQI">CQI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Continuous Quality Improvement</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRC" title="CRC">CRC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Clinical Research Center</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRCP" title="CRCP">CRCP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Reflective Community Practice (previous name of Community Innovators Lab)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRD" title="CRD">CRD</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Race and Diversity</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRE" title="CRE">CRE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Real Estate</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRI" title="CRI">CRI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Council on Resources for the Institute</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRN" title="CRN">CRN</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computer Resource Network</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRO" title="CRO">CRO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computer Resources Office (in the Department of Architecture)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRSP" title="CRSP">CRSP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee for the Review of Space Planning</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CRTMA" title="CRTMA">CRTMA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Charles River Transportation Management Association</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSA" title="CSA">CSA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Committee on Student Affairs</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSAB" title="CSAB">CSAB</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computer Science Accreditation Board</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSAIL" title="CSAIL">CSAIL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSBi" title="CSBi">CSBi</a> — <span class="smalltext">Computational and Systems Biology, a Ph.D. program at MIT</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSC" title="CSC">CSC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Chinese Students Club</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSDL" title="CSDL">CSDL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Charles Stark Draper Laboratory</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSF" title="CSF">CSF</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Service Fund</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSHE" title="CSHE">CSHE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Studies in Higher Education</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSI" title="CSI">CSI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Sports Innovation (Now named Sports Innovation @ MIT)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSO" title="CSO">CSO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Conference Services Office</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSPI" title="CSPI">CSPI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Community Solar Power Initiative</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/CSR" title="CSR">CSR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Center for Space Research. 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