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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.
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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. It was, through its [[Information Processing Techniques Office]], the primary funder of computer research in the US for many years.
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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:
 
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* [[time-sharing]] ([[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]], [[Multics]], and [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System]]; ancestors of, and inspirations for, [[UNIX]]);
 
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* [[user interface]] ([[graphical user interface]]s and the [[mouse]]);
 
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* [[data network]]ing (the [[ARPANET]] and [[Internet]]);
 
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* [[VLSI]]
 
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Among the bodies funded by DARPA were:
 
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* [[Bolt, Beranek, and Newman|BBN]]
 
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* [[Project MAC]]
 
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* [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI Lab]]
 
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* [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]]
 
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* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]]
 
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* [[Project Genie]]
 
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* [[SRI International|SRI]]
 
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* [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]]
 
  
 
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==Further reading==
 
==Further reading==
  
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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
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* Richard J. Barber Associates, ''The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-197'', 1975
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* Sharon Weinberger, ''The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World'', Knopf, 2017
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* Annie Jacobsen, ''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency'', Little, Brown and Company, 2015
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* Michael Belfiore, ''The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs'', Smithsonian, HarperCollins, New York, 2009 - has a good overview of the creation of ARPA
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Latest revision as of 14:44, 17 March 2024

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.

Further reading

  • Richard J. Barber Associates, The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-197, 1975
  • 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
  • Michael Belfiore, The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs, Smithsonian, HarperCollins, New York, 2009 - has a good overview of the creation of ARPA

External links

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