6.270 is alive and kicking. This year's website can be found here http://scripts.mit.edu/~6.270/

Really? My memory must be fuzzy, ISTR it was a coding exercise, at least in the 80s.

The memory is the first thing to go, etc etc.

EDIT: It was indeed robots from the beginning (1987). http://perspective.mit.edu/about/history.shtml