Oral history interview with Charles A. Zraket, 1990 May 3.

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Charles A. Zraket, 1990 May 3.

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, the MITRE Corporation, and Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. He concludes the interview with an overview of DARPA funding trends in the 1980s.

Computer data (1 file : 43K)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7885098

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Department of Defense. Information Processing Techniques Office

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6553c34 (corporateBody)

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...

Norberg, Arthur L. (Arthur Lawrence), 1938-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ww7n7h (person)

The DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) focused on inventing the networking, computing, and software technologies to ensure Department of Defense military superiority. From the guide to the Arthur L. Norberg and William Aspray DARPA project research files., 1960-1989, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi]) Technology, research administration. Associate Professor, History of Technology, University of Minnesota, from 1981; Execu...

Mitre Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67991qb (corporateBody)

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia. MITRE operates federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) to provide the United States government with support for systems engineering, research and development, and information technology. It manages FFRDCs for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Securi...

Bolt, Beranek, and Newman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63z22tr (corporateBody)