IP: Creating the Needed Interface: Computer Science and Govt:ARPA/IPTO

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:56:13 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ronda Hauben <ronda () panix com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu, ip-sub-1 () admin listbox com
>
> Dave - Thought IP readers would be interested in the following
> paper which is online at Telepolis. I welcome comments.:
>
>    Computer Science and Government: ARPA/IPTO (1962-1986)
>    Creating the Needed Interface
>
>     by Ronda Hauben   
>     rh120 () columbia edu
>    
>    This paper is a beginning effort to explore the role of the U.S.
>    government in building the Internet. The Information Processing
>    Techniques Office (IPTO) created within the Advanced Research Projects
>    Agency (ARPA) in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is the early and
>    most significant institutional form of this role. Working within this
>    institution, scientists provided leadership in creating the new field
>    of computer science and in giving birth to the Internet. Understanding
>    the role of government in the creation and development of the Internet
>    involves exploring the interface between the computer scientists
>    working as part of IPTO and the military officers in the DOD. More
>    fundamentally, this interface is actually an interface between the
>    computer science community and the U.S. government.
>    
>    Sections:
>
>      Creating the Needed Interface
>      Basic Research in the Post War Period
>      Soviet Union Launches Sputnik
>      Problems with Computers in DOD
>      Creating a New Field and Community of Computer Scientists
>      The Change at ARPA
>      Conclusion
>    
>
>         URL: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/5106/1.html
>
>
> ------------------
>              Netizens: On the History and Impact
>                of Usenet and the Internet
>           http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
>             in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6 
>            Published by IEEE Computer Society Press