The only really good -- and reasonable accurate -- book about the history of
Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is went things went bad), and Xerox PARC is
"Dream Machines" by Mitchel Waldrop.
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
> From: Miles Fidelman <[email protected]>
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 5:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] 90% glue code
>
>
>Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> This Licklider guy is interesting. CS + psych = cool.
>
>A lot more than cool. Lick was the guy who:
>- MIT Professor
>- pioneered timesharing (bought the first production PDP-1 for BBN) and AI
>work at BBN
>- served as the initial Program Manager at DARPA/IPTO (the folks who funded
>the ARPANET)
>- Director of Project MAC at MIT for a while
>- wrote some really seminal papers - "Man-Computer Symbiosis"is write up there
>with Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think"
>
>/It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a 'thinking
>center' that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together
>with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval./
>
>/The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected
>to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by
>leased-wire services. In such a system, the speed of the computers would be
>balanced, and the cost of the gigantic memories and the sophisticated programs
>would be divided by the number of users./
>
>- J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis <http://memex.org/licklider.html>,
>1960.
>
>- perhaps the earliest conception of the Internet:
>In a 1963 memo to "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer
>Network," Licklider theorized that a computer network could help researchers
>share information and even enable people with common interests to interact
>online.
>(http://web.archive.org/web/20071224090235/http://www.today.ucla.edu/1999/990928looking.html)
>
>Outside the community he kept a very low profile. One of the greats.
>
>Miles Fidelman
>
>-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
>
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