Oral history interview with Keith W. Uncapher, 1989 July 10.

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Oral history interview with Keith W. Uncapher, 1989 July 10.

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The interview begins with a review of projects at the Rand Corporation when Uncapher was hired in 1950. He discusses some of the projects he was involved in or had managerial responsibility for through the early 1970s, such as JOHNNIAC, JOSS, a survivable national network, GRAIL (programming language), and some work related to ARPANET. The formation of Information Sciences Institute (ISI), funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is described, as well as some of the work ISI did for DARPA/Information Processing Techniques Office (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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