Some Characteristics of RTL/2 and their Relevance to Process Control

• Fachtagung über Programmiersprachen, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 1974

book excerpt: nerds

Taylor was persistent: "So I kept trying and trying and failing and failing and then one day in the fall of that year [1966], after failing since February, I had an idea. I went in to see Charlie Herzfeld and I said, `Charlie, doesn't ARPA fund 51 percent of Lincoln Laboratory at MIT?' He said, `Yeah.' And I said, `Well, you know this networking project that I want to do, I'm having a hard time getting the program manager that I want and he works at Lincoln Lab.' I said, `Would you call Gerry Dinneen'—the director of Lincoln Lab—'and ask him to get Larry Roberts in his office and tell Larry Roberts that it would be in Larry Roberts' best interest and Lincoln Lab's best interest if Larry would just come down and take this job?' And Charlie said `Sure.' And while I was in his office, he picked up the phone and talked to Gerry Dinneen. I could hear Charlie's end of it and it was a short conversation."

Roberts heard the other end of the conversation, in the director's office at Lincoln Lab: "Bob got Herzfeld to call up the head of Lincoln and say, `Well, we have 51 percent of your money. Why don't you send Roberts down here as fast as you can?' And the head of Lincoln called me in and said, `It'd probably be a nice thing for all of us if you'd consider this.'"

Bob Taylor stood back to watch his plans unfold: "And Charlie hung up the phone at the end of the conversation and smiled and said, `Well, we'll see what happens.' Two weeks later Larry accepted the job."</blockquote>

timeline by larry roberts. his papers trough 1960; including "toward a cooperative network of time-shared computers - with Thomas Marill"; and the memo of licklider for the members and affiliates of the intergalactic computer network, arpa , washington dc, april 25, 1963.

when you realize, you just have to go through your own archive to find the answer. back at funding.

When the Defense Department issued a $19,800 contract on December 6, 1967, for the purpose of studying the "design and specification of a computer network," the world didn't take notice. But it should have. (fcc history project)

arpa report: history of arpanet, first decade, completion report, 1978

the future of computer science research in the us, 2005. statement of anthony j. tether, director of darpa.

President Kennedy would not have been as bullish when we said we are going to the Moon in 1969 if he didn't already know that the Saturn Rocket was there to have that possibility. That was DARPA's fifth project when it started ...

Mundane things during the Vietnam War like the M–16 rifle was a DARPA program all of the way to Global Hawk, Predator.

projects: putting atomic clock on a chip, laser diodes, getting titanium down to less than $2 a pound, building prosthetic that is controlled by the mind, a new high performance computing systems (HPCS), cognitive processing, ...

Now when Bill Gates a couple years ago was out on the stump trying to gin up support for computer science and kids were asking him questions, and they said, ''What's in it?'' What is the next biggest thing that we could be in this business? He said that if we can show how to have a computer that learns, that will be worth more than 10 Microsofts. (tether) ...

Okay. Upcoming key events. For those of you that really want to hear about DARPA, we have a symposium in August. It is in Anaheim. It is open to the world, foreigners. Why Anaheim? It is Disneyland. Where else would you have a DARPA conference, right?