Oral history interview with Michael L. Dertouzos, 1989 April 20.

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Oral history interview with Michael L. Dertouzos, 1989 April 20.

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Dertouzos begins by discussing his research in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Project MAC's change under his direction to the Laboratory for Computer Science. The bulk of the interview concerns MIT's relationship with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). Topics include: time-sharing, distributive systems, networking, multiprocessing, the ARPANET, and Robert Kahn's directorship of IPTO.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Michael L. Dertouzos, 1989 April 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63289550 ...