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'''Project GENIE''' (later often given as '''Project Genie''', but original documentation uses the upper-case version) was an early, and indirectly influential, research project at the University of California, Berkeley.

It started in 1964, funded by [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration|ARPA]], from [[J. C. R. Licklider]], the head of the [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] there, in his program of "just sprinkling money around to schools where they thought they’d get a return".

Its most notable direct product was the influential [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System]]; a later attempted system by a related group, the [[CAL Time-Sharing System]], did not succeed, nor did an attempted commercial spinoff, the [[Berkeley Computer Corporation]]. Its alumni, however, have had a profound impact; they include [[Ken Thompson]] of [[UNIX]], and [[Butler Lampson]], [[Peter Deutsch]], [[Chuck Thacker]], all of [[Xerox PARC]].

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==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719144454/http://coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/publications/forefront/archive/forefront-fall-2007/features/berkeley2019s-piece-of-the-computer-revolution Project Genie: Berkeley’s piece of the computer revolution]

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 It started in 1964, funded by [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration|ARPA]], from [[J. C. R. Licklider]], the head of the [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] there, in his program of "just sprinkling money around to schools where they thought they’d get a return".
-Its most notable direct product was the influential [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System]]; a later attempted system by a related group, the [[CAL Time-Sharing System]], did not succeed, nor did an attempted commercial spinoff, the [[Berkeley Computer Corporation]]. Its alumni, however, have had a profound impact; they include [[Ken Thompson]] of [[UNIX]], and [[Butler Lampson]], [[Peter Deutsch]], [[Chuck Thacker]], all of [[Xerox PARC]].
+Its most notable direct product was the influential [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System]], running on an enhanced [[SDS 930]]. A later attempted system by a related group, the [[CAL Time-Sharing System]], did not succeed, nor did an attempted commercial spinoff, the [[Berkeley Computer Corporation]]. Its alumni, however, have had a profound impact; they include [[Ken Thompson]] of [[UNIX]], and [[Butler Lampson]], [[Peter Deutsch]], and [[Chuck Thacker]], all of [[Xerox PARC]].
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Project GENIE - Revision history

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