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.1.1 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.