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ARPA

Established Date: June 1, 1958

  • All
  • co-founder
  • pioneer

  • Much of the nationwide university computer science research conducted in the 1960's was due in large part to funding from the U.S. Government's ARPA or Advanced Research Project Agency.

  • J.C.R.Licklider was put in charge of the new Information Processing Techniques Office (ITPO) at ARpA in 1962. It's initial $14million budget supported projects at MIT, Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon (amoung others)

    J.C.R.Licklider

    • J.C.R.Licklider

    J.C.R.Licklider was put in charge of the new Information Processing Techniques Office (ITPO) at ARpA in 1962. It's initial $14million budget supported projects at MIT, Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon (amoung others)

  • Ivan Sutherland