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| Title: | Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina |
| Authors: | Ruina, Jack |
| Keywords: | Computer history
United States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office |
| Issue Date: | 20-Apr-1989 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Jack Ruina, OH 163. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 20 April 1989, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107614 |
| Abstract: | The interview is mainly concerned with the beginning of the Information Processing Techniques Office within ARPA. The following issues were discussed: the initial goals, how the idea of an information processing program was initiated, the selection of the first director, and the working relation Ruina had as the Director of ARPA from 1961-1963 with the Director of the computing program. |
| Description: | Transcript, 12 pp. |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107614 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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