Oral history interview with R. W. Taylor, 1989 Feb. 28.

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Oral history interview with R. W. Taylor, 1989 Feb. 28.

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Following a brief description of his academic and professional background before joining the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Taylor describes his impression of IPTO when he arrived in 1965. Most of the interview is concerned with IPTO under Taylor's tenure as Director from 1966 to 1969. The major issues he discusses are: his understanding of the overall mission of IPTO at that time; the working relationship between IPTO and the Director of ARPA; the effect of external events, such as the Viet Nam war, on IPTO; how the budget process operated; what general areas of research were funded by IPTO;

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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In 1964, the Behavioral Sciences, Command and Control Research Office was split into the Behavioral Sciences Office (BSO) that covered the behavioral science functions and the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) that took over the Command and Control Research (CCR) functions.The Information Processing Techniques Office was dedicated to developing advanced information processing and computer communications technologies for critical military and national security applications. In its a...

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Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), 1966-1969. From the description of Oral history interview with R. W. Taylor, 1989 Feb. 28. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283041 ...