Browsing by Subject "Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Laboratory for Computer Science"

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    Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1990-11-14) Corbató, F. J.
    Corbató discusses computer science research, especially time-sharing, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Topics in the first session include: Phil Morse and the establishment of the Computation Center, Corbató's management of the Computation Center, the development of the WHIRLWIND computer, John McCarthy and research on time-sharing, cooperation between International Business Machines (IBM) and MIT, and J. C. R. Licklider and the development of Project MAC. Topics in the second session include: time-sharing, the development of MULTICS by the General Electric (GE) Computer Division, IBM's reaction to MIT working with GE, the development of CTSS, the development of UNIX in cooperation with Bell Labs, interaction with the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, interaction with Honeywell after they purchased GE's Computer Division, and the transformation of Project MAC into the Laboratory for Computer Science.
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    Oral history interview with Michael L. Dertouzos
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1989-04-20) Dertouzos, Michael L.
    Dertouzos begins by discussing his research in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Project MAC's change under his direction to the Laboratory for Computer Science. The bulk of the interview concerns MIT's relationship with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). Topics include: time-sharing, distributive systems, networking, multiprocessing, the ARPANET, and Robert Kahn's directorship of IPTO.
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    Oral history interview with Patrick H. Winston
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1990) Winston, Patrick Henry
    Winston focuses on his work in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funding of projects through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Winston discusses: computer science and artificial intelligence research, the work of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, his own work in the AI Lab, the programming language FRL, the changes in DARPA support over time, and the influence of DARPA support on project design.