Fano, Robert M.2011-06-102011-06-101989-04-20Robert 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/107281OH 165https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107281Transcript, 42 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95590Fano 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.en-USComputer historyUnited States. -- Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques OfficeTime-sharing computer systems -- Research.System Development CorporationProject MAC (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)National Science Foundation (U.S.)Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCTSS (Computer operating system)Computer science -- Study and teaching (Higher)Computer networks -- ResearchARPANET (Computer network)United States. -- Office of Naval ResearchOral History