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* Sharon Weinberger, ''The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World'', Knopf, 2017 | * 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 | * 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 | ||
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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
