tag: computing
Lawrence Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist) [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:13
Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer...
As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American Paul Baran.
source: book; where wizards stay up late
J. C. R. Licklider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:09
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (/ˈlɪklaɪdər/; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or “Lick”, was an American psychologist[2] and computer scientist .... He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built
source: book; where wizards stay up late