Oral history interview with Stephen Lukasik, 1991 Oct. 17.

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Oral history interview with Stephen Lukasik, 1991 Oct. 17.

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Lukasik discusses his tenure at the Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA), later the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The interview focuses on the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of ARPA. Topics include: the work of Eb Rechtin, the development of computer networks and ARPANET, artificial intelligence research, the recruitment of IPTO directors, the effect of the Mansfield amendment, which specified research should be relevant to the military, on IPTO and ARPA funding, the grant process, the development of ILLIAC. Lukasik concludes the interview with a discussion of the name change from ARPA to DARPA.

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