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Title: Oral history interview with J. C. R. Licklider
Authors: Licklider, J. C. R.
Keywords: Computer history
Time-sharing computer systems -- Research.
Sutherland, Ivan Edward, 1938-
Ruina, Jack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory
Defense contracts -- United States
Computer science -- Research
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, inc.
United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office
Issue Date: 28-Oct-1988
Publisher: Charles Babbage Institute
Citation: J. C. R. Licklider, OH 150. Oral history interview by William Aspray and Arthur L. Norberg, 28 October 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107436
Abstract: Licklider, the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), discusses his work at Lincoln Laboratory and IPTO. Topics include: personnel recruitment; the interrelations between the various Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratories; Licklider's relationship with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; the work of ARPA director Jack Ruina; IPTO's influence of computer science research in the areas of interactive computing and timesharing; the ARPA contracting process; the work of Ivan Sutherland.
Description: Transcript, 60 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95559
Permanent URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107436
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