Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time-sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing, contributed to the study of artificial intelligence, and developed the wide-area network that came to be known as the Internet. Transforming Computer Technology examines these and other developments at the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency in its heyday between 1962 and 1986. The authors show how Pentagon programs affected significant developments in both computer science and engineering. They analyze the management of the office, the origins and growth of important IPTO programs, and the interaction of the staff with the R & D community. They pay special attention to IPTO's role in executing research at the leading edge of computing and networking and in working with the military to transfer that research into practical use. And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.
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Solid and informative... An important contribution to the history of computing.
(Science )An important contribution to both science-policy literature and the history of computing. It will find an appreciative readership in the technology-policy community, in innovation studies, and in computer science.
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Arthur L. Norberg and Judy E. O'Neill are the former director and associate director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota.
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We need at the outset to distinguish this book from an earlier report we wrote on the history of IPTO, A History of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Minneapolis, Minn.: Charles Babbage Institute, 1992), researched and written under a contract issued by the Department of Defense (NASA-Ames Research Grant NAG 2-532, subcontract USC/PO 473764). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unlabeled folder, interactive computer use, intelligent automata, computation center, mainstream computing, network working group, timesharing systems, computing program, strategic computing, interactive computer systems, packet radio network, heuristic programming, interface message processor, interactive computing, time sharing, exploratory development, interactive computer graphics, computing community, computer utility, memorandum for the director Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Laboratory, New York, United States, Department of Defense, University of Utah, Institute Archives, University of California, Bell Laboratories, Rand Corporation, Stanford University, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Spring Joint Computer Conference, University of Michigan, Allen Newell, Information Processing Techniques Office, Office Files, Santa Monica, Carnegie-Mellon University, Ivan Sutherland, Saul Amarel, World War, Annals of the History of Computing, Robert Kahn, William Aspray, House Subcommittee New!
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We need at the outset to distinguish this book from an earlier report we wrote on the history of IPTO, A History of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Minneapolis, Minn.: Charles Babbage Institute, 1992), researched and written under a contract issued by the Department of Defense (NASA-Ames Research Grant NAG 2-532, subcontract USC/PO 473764). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unlabeled folder, interactive computer use, intelligent automata, computation center, mainstream computing, network working group, timesharing systems, computing program, strategic computing, interactive computer systems, packet radio network, heuristic programming, interface message processor, interactive computing, time sharing, exploratory development, interactive computer graphics, computing community, computer utility, memorandum for the director Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Laboratory, New York, United States, Department of Defense, University of Utah, Institute Archives, University of California, Bell Laboratories, Rand Corporation, Stanford University, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Spring Joint Computer Conference, University of Michigan, Allen Newell, Information Processing Techniques Office, Office Files, Santa Monica, Carnegie-Mellon University, Ivan Sutherland, Saul Amarel, World War, Annals of the History of Computing, Robert Kahn, William Aspray, House Subcommittee New!
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