Difference between revisions of "J.C.R. Licklider"
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Jack Ruina, director of ARPA, invited Licklider to head up two departments: Behavioral Sciences and Command and Control (which deals with making timely decisions to be carried out by forces in the field). A large Q-32 computer was put at Licklider’s disposal, and he was asked to find other uses for computers besides numerical calculation. | Jack Ruina, director of ARPA, invited Licklider to head up two departments: Behavioral Sciences and Command and Control (which deals with making timely decisions to be carried out by forces in the field). A large Q-32 computer was put at Licklider’s disposal, and he was asked to find other uses for computers besides numerical calculation. | ||
| − | Licklider set up research contracts with leading computer research institutions in the U.S., including MIT, Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley and the Californian | + | Licklider set up research contracts with leading computer research institutions in the U.S., including MIT, Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley and the Californian System Development Corporation. At MIT, he granted funding to develop Project MAC, a large mainframe computer that was designed to be shared by up to 30 simultaneous users, each sitting at a separate typewriter terminal. |
At the Stanford Research Institute he funded the Augmentation Research Center headed by [[Douglas Englebart]], who later invented the computer mouse and created the oN-Line System (NLS), which was the first multi-user to system to employ hypertext links, raster-scan video monitors and screen windowing. | At the Stanford Research Institute he funded the Augmentation Research Center headed by [[Douglas Englebart]], who later invented the computer mouse and created the oN-Line System (NLS), which was the first multi-user to system to employ hypertext links, raster-scan video monitors and screen windowing. | ||
