J.C.R. Licklider's vision for the IPTO
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July 2003, Volume25(Issue3)Pages 62To 77 -Permalink
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Abstract
The Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency was founded in 1962 as a step toward realizing a flexible military command and control system. In setting the IPTO's research agenda for funding, its first director, J.C.R. Licklider, emphasized the development of time-sharing systems. This article looks at how Licklider's early vision of "a network of thinking centers" helped set the stage for the IPTO's most famous project: the Arpanet.
Keywords
- history
- command and control systems
- Internet
- government data processing
- time-sharing systems
- Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider
- IPTO
- Information Processing Techniques Office
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- ARPA
- US Department of Defense
- DoD
- flexible military command and control system
- C/sup 2/ system
- time-sharing systems
- Arpanet
- ARPAnet
- Internet
- Time sharing computer systems
- Psychology
- Computer displays
- Laboratories
- Information processing
- Command and control systems
- Human factors
- Hardware
- Algorithms
- Workstations