A quick follow-up: Many of the interviews Abbate used are available from the Babbage Institute at University of Minnesota, http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/ 2 other books of interest: - Alex Roland, Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (The MIT Press 2002) - Arthur Norberg and Judy O'Neill, Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (JHU Press, 2000) - This book was the final product of the project that yielded the interviews I mentioned above. Both books are very good, and obviously both deal with computing in ARPA/DARPA. DARPA did (and still does) much more than computing, but I can't think of any references off the top of my head - Roland's book is more recent and hence might have citations to non-computing research. Or you might contact Roland himself (he is at Duke), by all accounts he is quite friendly. Best wishes, Andy Russell History of Science and Technology The Johns Hopkins University On Aug 13, 2004, at 7:12 PM, Denise N. Rall wrote:
The obvious one is:
Abbate, J. (1999) Inventing the Internet. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Abbate interviewed a number of the Internet founders and cites them in her References. Not sure if these interviews are available but they deal with DARPA.
I have also found the interviews from TechNation: Americans & Technology, Moira Gunn, presenter on NPR or PRI, I believe. They've been hard to contact recently, but a list of guests might be available. for example, there was a priceless interview with Doug Engelbert, not on your topic, but she might have interviewed some Darpa chiefs.
Hope this helps, Denise
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