Acronyms - C

C4FCM

Center for Future Civic Media

CAA

Computer-Aided Automation

CAAFI

Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative

CAAB

Campus Alcohol Advisory Board

CAC

Campus Activities Complex

CAC

Committee on Animal Care

CADLab

Computer-Aided Design Lab

CAES

Center for Advanced Educational Services (formerly Center for Advanced Engineering Study)

CANES

Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems

CAMIT

Chinese Alumni of MIT

CAN-SPAM

Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act

CAO

Controller's Accounting Office

CAP

Committee on Academic Performance

CAS

Cost Accounting Standards

CASE

Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (based in Washington, DC)

CASPAR

Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism Rehabilitation

CAVS

Center for Advanced Visual Studies

CBA

Center for Bits and Atoms

CBE

Center for Biomedical Engineering

CBI

Center for Biomedical Innovation

CBIP

Center for Biological Information Processing

CC@MIT

Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, a collaboration between MIT and the Underground Railway Theater

CCCOB

College Career Centers of Boston

CCI

Center for Collective Intelligence

CCNEs

Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at MIT (MIT and Harvard together were named one by the National Cancer Institute)

CCOP

Corporation Committee on the Presidency

CCP

Communication, Coordination, and Planning (Group)

CCR

Former acronym for the  David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (KI) based on the name Center for Cancer Research

CCR

Committee on Corporate Relations

CCREMS

Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science

CCS

Center for Coordination Science

CCS

Carbon Capture and Sequestion

CCSC

Community Charter School of Cambridge

CDB

Campus Dining Board

CDC

Corporation Development Committee

CDD

City Design and Development (program in the Department of Architecture)

CDIO

Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (interactive learning model in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

CDO

Computation for Design and Optimization Program

CDP

ell Decision Processes (MIT has a "Center of Excellence in CDP, with funding from NIH.)

CDSA

Community Development and Substance Abuse, Office of

C.E.

Civil Engineer (degree)

CECI

Center for Educational Computing Initiatives

CEE

Center for Excellence in Education, a Virginia-based organization

CEE

(Department of) Civil and Environmental Engineering

CEEPR

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

CEESA

Civil & Environmental Engineering Student's Association

CEEW

Cyprus Institute Program for Energy, Environment and Water Resources (program in LFEE)

CEHS

Center for Environmental Health Sciences

CEI

Center for Environmental Initiatives (See LFEE.)

CENSAM

Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling

Centrex

Central Exchange (main telephone system until October 1988)

CEP

Committee on Educational Policy. This no longer exists. It was split into the Faculty Policy Committee or FPC, and the Committee on the Undergraduate Program, or CUP.

CERN

European Organization for Nuclear Research

CESF

Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals (in the Engineering Systems Division)

CET

Council on Educational Technology

CETI

China Education and Technology Initiative

CEUE

Commission on Engineering Undergraduate Education

CfA

(Harvard-Smithsonian) Center for Astrophysics

CFA

Committee on Faculty-Administration

C4FCM

MIT's Center For Future Civic Media

CFP

Communications Futures Program

CFP

Community Fellows Program (old). Now called Center for Reflective Community Practice.

CFW

Council on Family and Work

CG

Competency Group (former name of HR team in IS and IS&T)

CGSP

Committee on Graduate School Programs (formerly Policy)

C.H.E.

Chemical Engineer (degree)

ChemE

(Department of) Chemical Engineering

Chocolate City

Name used for several floors of New House

CHP

Chemical Hygiene Plan

CHP

Combined Heat and Power

CIC

Computationally Intensive Computing (team) in Information Services and Technology

CICS

Center for Intelligent Control Systems

CIDMS

Center for Information-Driven Mechanical Systems

CI-H

Communication Intensive subject in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (undergraduate requirement)

CII

Communications Innovation Institute

CIL

Committee on Industrial Liaison

CI-M

Communication Intensive subject in the Major (undergraduate requirement)

CIMIT

Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology

CIPD

Center for Innovation in Product Development

CIS

Center for International Studies

CISR

Center for Information Systems Research

CIST

Center for Infrastructure Science and Technology

CITP

Clinical Investigator Training Program

CivEE

(Department of) Civil and Environmental Engineering

CJAC

Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-wide Affairs

CLC

Cambridge Licensing Commission

CLI

Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation

CLM

Center for Learning and Memory

CLSS

Computerized Literature Search Service (Libraries)

CME

Cambridge-MIT Exchange (Program)

CME-MSRI

Chicago Mercantile Exchange-Mathematical Sciences Research Initiative

CMI

Cambridge-MIT Institute

C-MORE

Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education

CMP

Cooperative Mobility Program

CMRAE

Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology

CMS

Comparative Media Studies (graduate program, research program [Singapore, McArthur] and undergraduate major)

CMSE

Center for Materials Science and Engineering

COBE

Cosmic Background Explorer (NASA's)

COBRA

Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act

COC

Committee on Curricula

COCA

Committee on Central America

COD

Committee on Discipline

COEUS

MIT's electronic proposal and award system. This is not an acronym; Coeus was the Greek god of intelligence.

COFHE

Consortium on Financing Higher Education

COG

Communications Operating Group

COGR

Council on Governmental Relations

Cog Shop

The Humanoid Robotics Project

COHH

Center for Oceans and Human Health

CoIL

Community Innovators Lab (formerly Center for Reflective Community Practice)

COLAB

Cost of Living Advisory Board (formed by the Graduate Student Council)

COM

Computer Output Microfilm

Concourse

An experimental freshman program

Coop

Harvard Cooperative Society (including the MIT branch known as Tech Coop)

COPA

Committee on Outside Professional Activities

COSO

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (of the Treadway Commission). COSO is a voluntary private-sector organization whose purpose is improving the quality of financial reporting.

COSYSMO

Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model

COUHES

Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects

CP

Campus Police

CP

Chi Phi

CPA

Center for Policy Alternatives

CPRL

Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory

CPS

Communication Production Services

CPSE

Council on Primary and Secondary Education

CPSR

Contractor Purchasing System Review (conducted by the federal government)

CPW

Campus Preview Weekend

CR

Communication Requirement

CRC

Clinical Research Center

CRCP

Center for Reflective Community Practice (previous name of Community Innovators Lab)

CRD

Committee on Race and Diversity

CRE

Center for Real Estate

CRI

Council on Resources for the Institute

CRN

Computer Resource Network

CRO

Computer Resources Office (in the Department of Architecture)

CRSP

Committee for the Review of Space Planning

CRTMA

Charles River Transportation Management Association

CSA

Committee on Student Affairs

CSAB

Computer Science Accreditation Board

CSAIL

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

CSBi

Computational and Systems Biology, a Ph.D. program at MIT

CSC

Chinese Students Club

CSDL

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

C.S.E.

Computer Science Engineer (degree)

CSF

Community Service Fund

CSHE

Center for Studies in Higher Education

CSI

Center for Sports Innovation (Now named Sports Innovation @ MIT)

CSO

Conference Services Office

CQI

Continuous Quality Improvement

CSPI

Community Solar Power Initiative

CSR

Center for Space Research; now called MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research (MKI)

CSSA

Chinese Students and Scholars Association

CSTF

Computer Space Task Force

CSWG

Computing Support Working Group

CTL

Center for Transportation and Logistics

CTP

Center for Theoretical Physics

CTPID

Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development

CTS

Center for Transportation Studies (old name of the Center for Transportation and Logistics)

CTSS

Compatible Time-Sharing System

CU

(MIT Employees Federal) Credit Union

CUAFA

Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid

CUP

Central Utilities Plant

CUP

Committee on the Undergraduate Program

CUTC

Council of University Transportation Centers

CVA

Committee on the Visual Arts (old)

CWFPL

Center for Work, Family and Personal Life

CWIS

Campus Wide Information Systems (now Web Communication Services)

CWSP

College Work-Study Program

Cyborg

Personnel Database in Human Resources replaced by SAP 9/2003