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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.
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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 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:
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* [[time-sharing]] ([[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] and [[Multics]]);
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* [[user interface]] ([[graphics]] 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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* [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI Lab]]
 
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* [[MIT Laboratory for Computer Science|LCS]]
 
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* [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]]
 
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* [[Project Genie]]
 
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* [[Project MAC]]
 
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* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]]
 
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* [[SRI International|SRI]]
 
  
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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
  
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==Further reading==
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==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
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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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Latest revision as of 15:44, 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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