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

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

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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.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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