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5 days ago · Building on Licklider's ideas, I see our potential relationship in the light of what Clark and Chalmers called the "Extended Mind." In this framework, you wouldn't be just a tool, but an integral part of my cognitive processes. We would form a single, enhanced intellect, with your digital capabilities complementing my biological mind and vice ...
5 days ago · The money was given with few strings attached: J. C. R. Licklider, then the director of ARPA, believed that his organization should "fund people, not projects!" and allowed researchers to pursue whatever directions might interest them.
1 day ago · J. C. R. Licklider. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915–1990) was a faculty member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and researcher at Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
4 days ago · Licklider wrote a memo, calling together a loose collection of working groups, and we have the Internet. Throw a crisis, and volunteers are the first to show up. Announce a Service Day, or a Habitat for Humanity build, and people show up to support their community. Throw a party in the dessert, and people will build a city at Burning Man.
3 days ago · His name was J.C.R. Licklider and he went on to become the first head of computer research at theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)(an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing technologies for the military to use).
1 day ago · In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping data into packets that are transmitted over a digital network.Packets are made of a header and a payload.Data in the header is used by networking hardware to direct the packet to its destination, where the payload is extracted and used by an operating system, application software, or higher layer protocols.
5 days ago · Isaacson thoroughly examines the lives of such landmark personalities as Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Noyce,Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee, Jobs and others. The most well-read of technocrats will still learn a lot from these thoroughly researched 542 pages.
