- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; illustrated edition edition (July 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801851521
- ISBN-13: 978-0801851520
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
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"Solid and informative...An important contribution to the history of computing."--'Science' "An important contribution to both science-policy literature and the history of computing. It will find an appreciative readership in the technology-policy community, in innovation studies, and in computer science."--'Computing Reviews'
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This text examines the influence of the US Department of Defence, and in particular the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), on computer research and development. It looks at developments at the Defence Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency between 1962 and 1986, showing how Pentagon programmes brought about significant developments in both computer science and engineering. Topics covered include: the management of the IPTO; the origins and growth of important IPTO programmes; the interaction of the staff with the research and development community; the IPTO's role in executing research at the leading edge of computing and networking; and the assimilation of research results into systems both for the military and for civilian society.
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We need at the outset to distinguish this book from an earlier report we wrote on the history of IPTO, A History of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Minneapolis, Minn.: Charles Babbage Institute, 1992), researched and written under a contract issued by the Department of Defense (NASA-Ames Research Grant NAG 2-532, subcontract USC/PO 473764). Read the first page
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We need at the outset to distinguish this book from an earlier report we wrote on the history of IPTO, A History of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Minneapolis, Minn.: Charles Babbage Institute, 1992), researched and written under a contract issued by the Department of Defense (NASA-Ames Research Grant NAG 2-532, subcontract USC/PO 473764). Read the first page
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