[Air-l] DARPA

[Andrew Russell]

A quick follow-up:
Many of the interviews Abbate used are available from the Babbage 
Institute at University of Minnesota, http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/

2 other books of interest:
- Alex Roland, Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine 
Intelligence, 1983-1993 (The MIT Press 2002)
- Arthur Norberg and Judy O'Neill, Transforming Computer Technology: 
Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (JHU Press, 2000) - 
This book was the final product of the project that yielded the 
interviews I mentioned above.

Both books are very good, and obviously both deal with computing in 
ARPA/DARPA.  DARPA did (and still does) much more than computing, but I 
can't think of any references off the top of my head - Roland's book is 
more recent and hence might have citations to non-computing research. 
Or you might contact Roland himself (he is at Duke), by all accounts he 
is quite friendly.

Best wishes,

Andy Russell
History of Science and Technology
The Johns Hopkins University




On Aug 13, 2004, at 7:12 PM, Denise N. Rall wrote:

> The obvious one is:
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> Abbate, J. (1999) Inventing the Internet. (Cambridge,
> MA: MIT Press).
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> Abbate interviewed a number of the Internet founders
> and cites them in her References. Not sure if these
> interviews are available but they deal with DARPA.
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> I have also found the interviews from TechNation:
> Americans & Technology, Moira Gunn, presenter on NPR
> or PRI, I believe. They've been hard to contact
> recently, but a list of guests might be available. for
> example, there was a priceless interview with Doug
> Engelbert, not on your topic, but she might have
> interviewed some Darpa chiefs.
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> Hope this helps, Denise
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