Was the idea of dividing digital messages into chunks that Mr. The key element, independently proposed by Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation and Donald Watts Davies of the British National Physical Laboratory, Ideas about creating such networks were percolating in the computer community. Incompatible devices used mostly for numerical calculations, Licklider envisioned networking them to communicate with one another and with their users. the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.'' Even when computers were huge Licklider, who had written passionately and presciently about a coming era when ''human brains and computing machines will be coupled In 1962, the agency hired a brilliant psychologist and computer scientist named J. Although it was ostensibly dedicated to defense, ARPA's mission of research and development turned out to cut a considerably wider swath. ''Where Wizards Stay Up Late'' traces the roots of the Internet to the Eisenhower Administration's establishment of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, in the wake of Date: September 8, 1996, Late Edition - FinalĪt a time when politicians and free-marketers routinely denounce government intervention and regulation, it is useful to remember that the information highway, like the interstates that preceded it, was initially a product ofįederal largess.
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