Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano

Fano, Robert M.
1989-04-20

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Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano

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1989-04-20

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Charles Babbage Institute

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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.

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Transcript, 42 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95590

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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

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