Title :
J.C.R. Licklider´s vision for the IPTO
Author :
Kita, Chigusa Ishikawa
Author_Institution :
Kyoto Univ., Japan
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 :
Internet; command and control systems; government data processing; history; time-sharing systems; ARPA; ARPAnet; Advanced Research Projects Agency; Arpanet; C2 system; DoD; IPTO; Information Processing Techniques Office; Internet; Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider; US Department of Defense; flexible military command and control system; time-sharing systems; Algorithms; Command and control systems; Computer displays; Hardware; Human factors; Information processing; Laboratories; Psychology; Time sharing computer systems; Workstations;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2003.1226656
