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cyberspace

Cyclades

CPYNET

 

Dalal, Yogen

Dallas Naval Air Station

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency)

network responsibilities divested by

databases

Data computer

datagrams

data-reconfiguration service

Davies, Donald Watts

background and education of

pioneering work on packet-switching

by

small network experiment of

translator computer envisioned by

DCA (Defense Communications

Agency)

DDP-516 computer

BBN modifications of

core memory of

debugging of

heavy-duty steel housing of

IMP models based on,
see
Interface

Message Processors

I/O capability of

programming of

DECNET

Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency,
see
DARPA

Defense Communications Agency

(DCA)

Defense Department, U.S. (DOD)

Advanced Research Projects Agency

of,
see
ARPA

interservice rivalry for R&D contracts

within

Pentagon offices of

Defense Reorganization Act

Delaware, University of

Democratic Party

Denning, Peter

Depression, Great

desktop computers

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

computers built by,
see specific PDP

computers

Director of Defense Research and Engineering

Distant Early Warning (DEW)

DNS (domain name system)

Doctor, The

Domestic Android robot

Douglas, James

Drexel Institute of Technology

drug trade

Duke University

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D)

Durham, Ivor

Duvall, Bill

 

Earnest, Les

earthquakes

Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

ARPA and

military-industrial complex distrusted

by

military rivalries decried by

scientific community embraced by

election of 1976

electricity

circuit outages of

electromagnetism

electromechanical tabulating equipment

electronic mail (e-mail)

composing and editing messages for

early forms of

efforts to impose uniformity and

standard message headers in

equal access issues and

FINGER controversy and

header wars in

issues of free speech in

mailing lists and

Postal Service and

privacy concerns and

programs for

punctuation in

reforming of

response time and numbers in

time and date stamps in

values and etiquette in

volume of traffic in

electronic media

electronic systems components

Elkind, Jerry

emoticons

Engelbart, Douglas

engineering

computer systems

electrical

power

risk assessment and

theoretical

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator

and Calculator)

espionage operations

Estrin, Jerry

Ethernet

Evans, Dave

Evans and Sutherland

 

Farber, Dave

FCC (Federal Communications Commission)

ferrite cores

Feurzeig, Wally

Fields, Craig

file-transfer protocol (FTP)

FINGER command

flames/flaming

Flint Ridge Cave

floppy disks

Forrester, Jay

FORTRAN

Fox, Mark

France

Frank, Howard

free speech

freight movers

Frick, Fred

Frodo

FTP (file-transfer protocol)

 

games, computer

Gates, Bill

General Electric

Geological Survey, U.S.

Gore, Al

graphics

interactive

Gulf Oil

 

hacking

creative vs. malicious

Harvard University

IMP Number Nine at

Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at

Hawaii, University of

Header People

header wars

Hearn, Tony

Heart, Frank

background and education of

at BBN

computer systems engineering of

design reviews of

family life of

IMP proposal work of

at Lincoln Laboratory

perfectionism and design concerns

of

personality and work habits of

as project manager of IMP design

team

team work and loyalty of

tools and systems management

techniques of

Heart, Jane

Henderson, Austin

HERMES

Herzfeld, Charles

Hewlett-Packard

Hill, Albert

holographic images

Honeywell

BBN relations with

computers built by,
see
DDP-516

computer; Honeywell-316

computer

Honeywell-316 computer

hospitals, computer technology for

Hughes Aircraft

Hush-A-Phone

 

IBM (International Business Machines

Corporation)

computers built by

IBM cards

IBM

IBM

IBM 7094 computer

ideal auditory detection

ILLIAC IV computer

Illinois, University of

Center for Advanced Computation

at

IMP Guys

IMP-Number 0

BBN specifications for

debugging of

delivery and testing of

initial failure of

IMP Number One

BBN specifications for

problems with

rewiring and debugging of

shipping and delivery of

Sigma-7 interface with

synchronizer problems with

IMP Number Two

IMP Number Three

IMP Number Four

IMP Number Five

IMP Number Fifteen

IMPs,
see
Interface Message Processors

IMPs Numbers

information superhighway

Infoworld,

intercontinental ballistic missiles

Interface Message Processors (IMPs)

BBN awarded contract for

BBN design and construction of

checksum requirements for

competitive bids sought for

debugging of

error-control system of

function of

handling of I/O traffic by

hardware of

phasing out of

problems and challenges of

proposals submitted for

prototype of,
see
IMP Number 0

routing issues and

self-sufficiency measures of

software requirements of

status reports compiled by

telephone line transmission with

test programs and performance

checks for

verification of message reception by

International Business Machines Corporation

see
IBM

International Conference on Computer

Communication (ICCC)

International Geophysical Year

International Network Working Group

(INWG)

International Organization for Standardization

(ISO)

Internet

commercial uses of

definition of

roots of,
see
ARPANET

Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Protocol (IP)

Internet Society

Interop

interstate highway system

INWG (International Network Working

Group)

IP (Internet Protocol)

 

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Roy

Joint Services Advisory Committee

(JSAC)

Joy, Bill

Justice Department, U.S.

 

Kahn, Bob

Cerf and

host site relations of

international network connections

and

packet-radio projects of

public computer demonstration

organized by

systems design work of

Karlton, Phil

Kennedy, Edward M.

Kennedy, John F.

assassination of

Kent State University

Khrushchev, Nikita

Killian, James R., Jr.

Kleinrock, Leonard

Kline, Charley

kludges

Korean War

Kryter, Karl

 

Lampson, Butler

Land, Edwin

Landweber, Larry

laser scans

Lawrence, Ernest O.

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Levy, Steve

LGP-30 computer

libraries

Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett “Lick,”

ARPA association of

background and education of

BBN association of

computer network vision of

computer scientists recruited by

human factors group headed by

human-machine symbiosis seen by

interdisciplinary interests of

at Lincoln Laboratory

personality of

problem solving and intuition of

psychoacoustics work of

psychology discipline of

public speaking of

standardization of languages and

systems urged by

teaching of

time-sharing projects of

Licklider, Louise

lightning storms

Lincoln Center

Lincoln Laboratory

air defense projects of

ARPA financing of

formation and staffing of

Heart at

human-engineering project at

as incubator for computer scientists

Licklider at

network connected to

network experiment at

TX-0 and TX-2 computers developed

at

Whirlwind Project at

local area networks (LANs)

Lockheed