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Abramson, Norm

acoustics

airborne

BBN work in

see also
psychoacoustics

Adams, Sherman

Adventure

aerospace industry

Aiken, Howard

air-defense early-warning system

Air Force, U.S.

air traffic control

algorithms

ALOHANET

alphanumerical displays

Alto Aloha Network

Alto personal computer

Andreessen, Marc

AN/FSQ32XD1A,
see
Q-32

animal research

ANSWER command

Archimedes

architecture

Army, U.S.

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects

Agency)

armed services resistance to

basic research and special projects

orientation of

behavioral sciences division at

budget of

Command and Control Research division

of

dance automation project of

downgrading of

early redefinition of goals in

formation of

freewheeling style of

Information Processing Techniques

Office (IPTO) of

Licklider at

original research direction of

staffing of

Taylor at

see also
DARPA

ARPANET:

Baran's theoretical work and

centralized approach to

cost factors in

data flow in

Davies' theoretical work and

deadlines for setting up

design and development of, technology

for

duplication and isolation of work

avoided with

early advocacy of

early uses of

efforts to begin construction and

trials of

emphasis on openness in

expansion of

experiments with

first public demonstration of

first test of

full duplex transmission in

games on

host sites proposed for,
see

also specific sites

interconnected links and nodes in

international network connections

to

as largest and most sophisticated in

the world

mass market for

memory buffer congestion problems

in

message blocks data transmission in

need for host computer eliminated

in

nuclear attack survivability and

packet-switching transmission in

periodic failures of

radio linkage of

redundancy levels in

remote maintenance and troubleshooting

of

response time and reliability in

routing procedures in

satellite linkage of

sharing of resources through

skepticism and hostility toward

software as

store-and-forward system of

subnetwork proposed for

telephone line transmission in

testing and analysis of

theories of Baran and Davies combined

in

topology of

transition to TCP/IP by

twentieth anniversary of

twenty-fifth anniversary of

volume and flow of data traffic in

ARPANET News,

Arthur D. Little

artificial intelligence (AI)

Associated Press (AP)

Association for Computing Machinery

AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph

Company)

ARPANET takeover considered by

circuit maps of

as monopoly

network participation of

resistance to Baran network theory

by

@ sign

audio tapes

auditory nervous system

automated garbage collection

automatic database query

automatic phone dialers,
see

also
modems

Avery Fisher Hall (Philharmonic Hall)

Aviation Week,

 

Baran, Paul

background and education of

network design consultancy of

at RAND

struggle for acceptance of theories

by

technical reports and memos of

theoretical work on communications

networks by

bar codes

Barker, Ben

debugging skills of

host sites visited by

maintenance team of

BARRnet

Baruch, Jordan

BBN Report 1822

behavioral science research

Bell Laboratories

Bell System

Beranek, Leo

Berners-Lee, Tim

Betts, Austin W.

Bhushan, Abhay

BITNET (Because It's Time Network)

Bobrow, Danny

Boggs, David

Bolt, Richard

Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)

academic environment of

acoustical work of

artificial intelligence work at

buildings and offices of

computer systems division of

computer technology focus of

consulting services of

corporate consciousness of

early computers purchased by

ebbing fortunes and problems of

education group at

founding of

government investigation of

growth of

Heart at,
see
Heart, Frank, at BBN

hiring philosophy of

Honeywell DDP-516s purchased by

Honeywell's relations with

hospital computer project at

host site relations with

IMP contract awarded to

IMP design and construction by

IMP Number Five at

IMP proposal submitted by

IMP source code of

information sciences division of

Internet-related businesses of

Licklider at

Moulton Street complex of

Network Control Center (NCC) at

new 316 IMPs designed by

small size of

Systems and Technology Division of

Tenex group of

time-sharing service of

Boston Globe

brain, neural connections in

brain teasers

Braun, Wernher von

Braving the Elements
(Merrill)

British Post Office

Bronk, Detlev W.

Bryan, Roland

B-17 bombers

B-24 bombers

Bunker-Ramo

Bureau of the Budget, U.S.

Burroughs B6700 computer

Burroughs Corporation

 

calculating machines

California, University of:

at Berkeley

at Irvine

at Los Angeles,
see
UCLA

at Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU)

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at

Carter, Jimmy

Carterfone

Case Western Reserve University

casino gambling

CATENET (Concatenated Network)

Cave Research Foundation

CDNet

Cerf, Sigrid

Cerf,Vint

background and education of

hearing impairment of

international network connections

and

Kahn and

UCLA IMP experiment and

CERFnet (California Educational Research

Network)

CERN physics laboratory (Switzerland)

Chamber of Commerce, U.S.

Chen, Joyce

chess games

Clark, Wesley

subnetwork proposed by

Clarke, Arthur C.

Cohen, Danny

Colby, Kenneth

cold war

COMET

command and control systems

ARPA research in

commands

Commerce Department, U.S.

communications theory

Computer Corporation of America

(CCA)

computer jargon

Computer Museum

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

computer programming

advanced techniques of

assembly-language

conversational

courses in

disparate languages of

early complexities of

educational

e-mail

machine-language

medical

natural-language

computers:

batch processing method and

“bursty” nature of data communication

by

coordinating commands of multiple

users of

cost of

crashes and down time of

digital transmission in

early manufacture of

early research and development of

educational applications of

as extensions of human intelligence

instructional aids and help menus of

interactive aspects of

interconnection of,
see
ARPANET;

Internet

life sciences application of

log-in procedures for

maintenance of

measuring devices connected to

memory capacity of

military uses of

operating systems of

potential transformation of society

by

size and compounds of

speed and reliability of

time-sharing access to

video display screens of

computer science

college courses in

conferences on

corporate divisions specializing in

fruition of collective effort in

professional organizations promoting

Computer Science Research Network

see
CSNET

“Confessions of a Hearing-Impaired

Engineer” (Cerf)

Congress, U.S.

Conrades, George

Consumer Reports,

Control Data Corporation (CDC)

Convair

cooperating processes

Copley Plaza Hotel

Corbató, Fernando

Corporation for National Research

Initiative

Cosell, Bernie

development and debugging specialty

of

Crocker, Dave

Crocker, Steve

background and education of

RFCs started by

UCLA IMP experiment and

Crowther, Pat

Crowther, Will

game developed by

software effort directed by

CRT

CSNET (Computer Science Research

Network)

Curtis, Kent