|
University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy >
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities >
Charles Babbage Institute >
Oral history interviews >
Please use this permanent URL to cite or link to this item:
http://purl.umn.edu/107608
|
| Title: | Oral history interview with Lawrence G. Roberts |
| Authors: | Roberts, Lawrence G. |
| Keywords: | Computer history
ARPANET (Computer network)
Artificial intelligence -- Research
Clark, Wesley
Computer networks -- Research
Computer science -- Research
Licklider, J. C. R.
Lincoln Laboratory
Lukasik, Stephen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Military research -- United States
Sutherland, Ivan Edward, 1938-
United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office
Universities and colleges -- Research -- United States |
| Issue Date: | 4-Apr-1989 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Lawrence G. Roberts, OH 159. Oral history interview by Arthur L. Norberg, 4 April 1989, San Francisco, California. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107608 |
| Abstract: | Roberts, Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) Director from 1968-1973 and later chief operating officer of Network Express, begins by discussing his own research in computer science and the development of computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory. The interview focuses on IPTO and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Much of Roberts description of the work of ARPA and IPTO is set within the context of his interactions with Congress on budget matters. Topics include: J. C. R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland, Steve Lukasik, Wesley Clark, ARPA and IPTO support of research in computer science, computer networks, and artificial intelligence, the ARPANET, the involvement of universities with ARPA and IPTO. |
| Description: | Transcript, 53 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95573 |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107608 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
|
Files in This Item:
| File |
Description |
Size | Format |
|---|
| oh159lgr.pdf | | 88Kb | PDF | View/Open |
|
Items in the Digital Conservancy are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|
