Difference between revisions of "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency"
From Computer History Wiki
(Add Project Genie, for which there is not yet an article but several links.) |
(Project MAC.) |
||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
* [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]] | * [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]] | ||
* [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]] | * [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]] | ||
| + | * [[Project Genie]] | ||
| + | * [[Project MAC]] | ||
* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] | * [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] | ||
* [[SRI International|SRI]] | * [[SRI International|SRI]] | ||
| − | |||
{{semi-stub}} | {{semi-stub}} | ||
Revision as of 08:00, 7 November 2022
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 (CTSS and Multics);
- user interface (graphics and the mouse);
- data networking (the ARPANET and Internet);
- VLSI
Among the bodies funded by DARPA were:
Further reading
- Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill; Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2000
