Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Revision history

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‎Further reading: +Department of Mad Scientists

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‎External links: +DARPA Technical Accomplishments Vol. III

Larsbrinkhoff: Project MAC.

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Project MAC.

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Add Project Genie, for which there is not yet an article but several links.

Jnc: A good start

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A good start

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The '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration''' (initially named the '''Advanced Research Projects Administration'''; generally referred to as '''DARPA''' and '''ARPA''') was a branch of the US Department of Defense which was, through its '''Information Processing Techniques Office''' (usually given as '''IPTO'''), the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.

Under its first head, [[J. C. R. Licklider]], and his successors, IPTO launched an incomparable list of projects which have basically created the computers of today, which in their turn have changed entire societies:

* [[time-sharing]] ([[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] and [[Multics]]);
* [[user interface]] ([[graphics]] and the [[mouse]]);
* [[data network]]ing (the [[ARPANET]] and [[Internet]]);
* [[VLSI]]

Among the bodies funded by DARPA were:

* [[Bolt, Beranek, and Newman|BBN]]
* [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI Lab]]
* [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]]
* [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]]
* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]]
* [[SRI International|SRI]]

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==Further reading==

* Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill; ''Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986''; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2000

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 * Sharon Weinberger, ''The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World'', Knopf, 2017
 * Annie Jacobsen, ''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency'', Little, Brown and Company, 2015
 ==External links==

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-The '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency''' (initially named the '''Advanced Research Projects  Agency'''; generally referred to as '''DARPA''' and '''ARPA''' - the acronym form is sometimes incorrectly expanded to '''{Defense} Advanced Research Projects ''Administration''''') was a branch of the US Department of Defense which was, through its [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] (usually given as '''IPTO'''), the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.
+The '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency''' (initially named the '''Advanced Research Projects  Agency'''; generally referred to as '''DARPA''' and '''ARPA''' - the acronym form is sometimes incorrectly expanded to '''{Defense} Advanced Research Projects ''Administration''''') was a branch of the US Department of Defense. It was, through its [[Information Processing Techniques Office]], the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.
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 ==Further reading==
-* Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill; ''Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986''; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2000
+* Richard J. Barber Associates, ''The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-197'', 1975
 ==External links==

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	* Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill; ''Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986''; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2000		* Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill; ''Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986''; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2000
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		+	==External links==
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		+	* [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA241680.pdf DARPA Technical Accomplishments Vol. III: An Overall Perspective and Assessment of the Technical Accomplishments of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: 1958-1990]

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-The '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration''' (initially named the '''Advanced Research Projects Administration'''; generally referred to as '''DARPA''' and '''ARPA''') was a branch of the US Department of Defense which was, through its '''Information Processing Techniques Office''' (usually given as '''IPTO'''), the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.
+The '''Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency''' (initially named the '''Advanced Research Projects  Agency'''; generally referred to as '''DARPA''' and '''ARPA''' - the acronym form is sometimes incorrectly expanded to '''{Defense} Advanced Research Projects ''Administration''''') was a branch of the US Department of Defense which was, through its [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] (usually given as '''IPTO'''), the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.
-Under its first head, [[J. C. R. Licklider]], and his successors, IPTO launched an incomparable list of projects which have basically created the computers of today, which in their turn have changed entire societies:
+Under IPTO's first head, [[J. C. R. Licklider]], and his successors, IPTO launched an incomparable list of projects which have basically created the computers of today, which in their turn have changed entire societies:
-* [[time-sharing]] ([[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] and [[Multics]]);
+* [[time-sharing]] ([[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]], [[Multics]], and [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System]]; ancestors of, and inspirations for, [[UNIX]]);
-* [[user interface]] ([[graphics]] and the [[mouse]]);
+* [[user interface]] ([[graphical user interface]]s and the [[mouse]]);
 * [[data network]]ing (the [[ARPANET]] and [[Internet]]);
 * [[VLSI]]
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 * [[Bolt, Beranek, and Newman|BBN]]
 * [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI Lab]]
 * [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]]
-* [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]]
+* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]]
 * [[Project Genie]]
 * [[SRI International|SRI]]
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