> The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is a service organization
> whose function is to provide easy access to computer facilities at MIT and
> assistance to those who use them. We provide services to the MIT computing
> community to aid in work productivity, computer use education, and
> entertainment. In short, we strive to aid the MIT computing community in
> whatever (legal) endeavor users may wish of the available computer resources.
>
> There is, however, another side to the SIPB: we are also one of MIT's many
> student activities. The Board is composed of MIT students. Expertise in
> computers is not assumed or required for membership, although the majority of
> members acquire some in time. Members will also find themselves acquiring a
> lot of other skills and knowledge too diverse to list here. This is not as
> dreary as it may sound; we generally have a very good time.

--- [_The SIPB Office Manual_](https://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/office-manual/HTML/manual/node3.html)

> We are MIT's volunteer student computing group, improving computing at MIT
> [since 1969](/history).
> Today, [SIPB projects](https://sipb-projectdb.scripts.mit.edu/projectlist.py)
> provide innovative services and special expertise to the MIT community.  We
> have [an office](/office) just outside the Athena cluster in the (student
> center W20)[https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W20], and you are welcome to come by
> to [ask us for help](/computer_help) or to hang around, use our computers,
> and maybe [get involved](/join).
> We have [meetings](https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/admin/minutes/) every
> Monday at 19:30 (now also on Zoom!).  You can find out what's abuzz in the
> SIPB community at [Planet SIPB](/planet). We host a number of events, which
> are enumerated on our [calendar](/calendar).

--- [_Previous SIPB website_](/previously)