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| Title: | Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano |
| Authors: | Fano, Robert M. |
| Keywords: | Computer history
United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office
Time-sharing computer systems -- Research.
System Development Corporation
Project MAC (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CTSS (Computer operating system)
Computer science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Computer networks -- Research
ARPANET (Computer network)
United States. -- Office of Naval Research |
| Issue Date: | 20-Apr-1989 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Robert M. Fano, OH 165. Oral history interview by Arthur L. Norberg, 20 April 1989, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107281 |
| Abstract: | Fano discusses his move to computer science from information theory and his interaction with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Topics include: computing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the work of J. C. R. Licklider at the Information Processing Techniques Office of ARPA; time-sharing and computer networking research; Project MAC; computer science education; CTSS development; System Development Corporation (SDC); the development of ARPANET; and a comparison of ARPA, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research computer science funding. |
| Description: | Transcript, 42 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95590 |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107281 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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