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Title: Oral history interview with Stephen Crocker
Authors: Crocker, Stephen
Keywords: Computer history
United States. -- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office
Russell, David
Kahn, Robert E.
Green, Claude Cordell
Computer software -- Development.
Computer networks.
Artificial intelligence -- Research
Wessler, Barry David, 1943-
Issue Date: 24-Oct-1991
Publisher: Charles Babbage Institute
Citation: Stephen Crocker, OH 233. Oral history interview by Judy E. O'Neill, 24 October 1991, Glenwood, Maryland. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107234
Abstract: Crocker discusses computer networks, artificial intelligence research, and his work at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Crocker details his interactions with other DARPA personnel including Cordell Green, Barry Wessler, Larry Roberts, Robert Kahn, and David Russell. He discusses his work as a program manager in the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). Crocker describes the effect of the Mansfield amendment, which specified research needed to be relevant to the military, on DARPA projects. He also discusses software development.
Description: Transcript, 78 pp.
Permanent URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107234
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