[ih] ARPA Information Processing Techniques Office history (was: Alex McKenzie's 2013 paper on the History of the Internet)

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

in reading Alex's 2013 paper on the History of the Internet yours truly saw
mention as to who was the first IPTO director (Lick) and then immediate
mention that  Robert W. ‘‘Bob’’ Taylor (1932– ) became the
third IPTO director in 1966 -- but with no mention as to who was the second
IPTO director... so over to Wikipedia it was and yours truly found at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Techniques_Office

under

"Later history

Ivan Sutherland replaced J. C. R. Licklider as IPTO's director when
Licklider left ARPA in 1964.[7][8] Sutherland was 26 years old at the time.
Bob Taylor was hired as Sutherland's assistant in 1965 and became director
in 1966.[9]

During Taylor's tenure, the IPTO facility consisted of a spacious office
for the director in Ring D of The Pentagon and a small "terminal room" with
remote terminals to mainframe computers at MIT, the University of
California, Berkeley and the AN/FSQ-32 in Santa Monica.[10] The staff at
the Pentagon consisted of the director and his secretary.[11] The budget
was $19 million which funded computer research projects at MIT and other
institutions in Massachusetts and California.[12]

In 1966 Taylor went to ARPA, on Ring E, for funding to create a computer
network that used interactive computing. He got $1 million and hired
Lawrence Roberts to manage the project.[13]

IPTO was combined with the Transformational Convergence Technology Office
(TCTO) to form the Information Innovation Office (I2O) in 2010."


two immediate things came to mind:

#1.) it would seem of benefit that this part of IPTO's history could/needs
to be further flushed out to include all prior directors and their
assistants, say starting with Bob Kahn, Steve Crocker, ...?

#2.) a 26 year old D/ARPA office director (Ivan Sutherland)!?
would curious to know if that would that be the youngest (or anything close
to the youngest) director of any D/ARPA office to the present day?

geoff

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 2:59 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <
geoff at iconia.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
> please pardon the always being the unrelenting curious and inquisitive
> mind here, but would you be willing to share what were the several specific
> items which the publishers considered critical and you were required to
> cover in your history of the Internet paper, pretty please?
>
> geoff
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 7:28 AM Alex McKenzie via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> In 2014 a paper I was hired to write about the history of the Internet
>> was published in the 3-volume "Discoveries in Modern Science." I was
>> required to cover several specific items which the publishers considered
>> critical, whether I thought so or not. Of course, with a restricted word
>> limit the big question for an author is what to include and what to leave
>> out.  I'm sure other authors would have made different choices from mine.
>> I was recently granted permission to post a copy of this article on my
>> website.  If anyone is interested it can be found at http://
>> alexmckenzie.weebly.com/history-of-the-internet.html
>>
>> Cheers,Alex
>>
>
>

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