Oral history interview with Charles A. Zraket

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Oral history interview with Charles A. Zraket

1990-05-03

http://hdl.handle.net/11299/107728

Zraket describes the Information Processing Techniques Office's (IPTO) interest in command and control systems in the early 1960s. He provides a perspective on the military expectations of computing that developed from the Whirlwind and SAGE projects. Zraket discusses the interaction between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the MITRE Corporation, and Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. He concludes the interview with an overview of DARPA funding trends in the 1980s.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.

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Zraket, Charles A., 1924-1997

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Charles A. Zraket (1924-1997), B.S., Northeastern University, 1951, M.S., MIT, 1953, was the President and CEO of the MITRE Corporation from 1986 to 1990. Zraket spent his professional career serving in management positions in systems and research engineering and was involved in the acquisition of large-scale electronic systems for defense, intelligence, space, air traffic control and other civil systems, as well as energy and environmental systems. Zraket was born on January 9, 1924, in Lawren...