Joseph carl robert licklider biography books
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‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’
Lewis Carroll
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915-1990), called also J.C.R. or “Lick”, was an American scientist, an imaginative experimenter, and a theoretician, who left major marks not only in computer science but also in psychoacoustic.
In the 1950s, working as an associate professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and director of the Acoustics Laboratory, Lick got caught up in Project SAGE. It was a crash program to create a computer-based air-defense system against Soviet long-range bombers. The computer in SAGE was Whirlwind (see the lower photo), which had been under development at MIT since 1944 and recently had been completed under the direction of Jay Forrester. Other early computers, such as ENIAC, had started out as giant calculators, with an operating style to m
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Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett
(b. St. Louis, Missouri, 11 March 1915; d. Arlington, Massachusetts, 26 June 1990),
acoustics, engineering psychology, computer science.
J.C.R. Licklider started his academic career as an experimental psychologist. His area of concern broadened from acoustics to engineering psychology and then to human-computer interaction and computerized library systems. From 1962 to 1964 Licklider served as the first director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, the largest federal funding agency of the time for the computing field. His administration of the office galvanized the emerging computer science field into shaping research agendas in time-sharing systems, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and later, networking. The essential features of modern personal computing can be traced to his inspiration.
Family Background and Education . Licklider was the son
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J. C. R. Licklider
American psychologist and computer scientist (1915-1990)
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist[3] and computer forskare who fryst vatten considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.
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