Dennis, Jack B. (Jack Bonnell)O'Neill, Judy E.2011-06-092011-06-091989-10-31Jack B. Dennis, OH 177. Oral history interview by Judy E. O'Neill, 31 October 1989, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107244OH 177https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107244Transcript, 31 pp.Dennis describes his educational background and work in time-sharing computer systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The interview focuses on time-sharing. Dennis discusses the TX0 computer at MIT, the work of John McCarthy on time-sharing, and the influence of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (later the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on the development of time-sharing. Dennis also recalls the competition between various firms, including Digital Equipment Corporation, General Electric, Burroughs, and International Business Machines, to manufacture time-sharing systems. He describes the development of MULTICS at General Electric.en-USComputer historyUnited States. -- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques OfficeUnited States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques OfficeTX0 (Computer)Time-sharing computer systems -- Research.McCarthy, John, 1927-Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Business Machines Corporation.General Electric CompanyDigital Equipment CorporationDefense contracts -- United StatesComputer science -- ResearchComputer industryBurroughs CorporationOral History