Transforming Computer Technology Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

Name: Transforming Computer Technology Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
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ISBN: 9780801863691

ISBN-10: 0801863694

ISBN-13: 9780801863691

Edition: 1996

Authors: Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill, Kerry J. Freedman

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Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time-sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing, contributed to the study of artificial intelligence, and developed the wide-area network that came to be known as the Internet. Transforming Computer Technology examines these and other developments at the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Arthur L. Norberg is Director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information and Technology. He holds the ERA Land-Grant Chair in History of Technology and is a Professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Frequently Used Acronyms


Introduction



Managing for Technological Innovation



Sharing Time



Getting the Picture: The Growth of Interactive Computer Graphics



Improving Connections among Researchers: The Development of Packet-Switching Computer Networks



The Search for Intelligent Systems



Serving the Department of Defense and the Nation



List of Interview Subjects


Notes


Index