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  Larry Roberts
Roberts was a shy man who was well-respected in his field.
Roberts, a respected computer scientist with good management skills who also had networking experience (which was a rare commodity in those days) was the ideal candidate to lead ARPA's networking project.
Indeed, Taylor had said that the job would put Roberts in position to become IPTO Director when Taylor stepped down, but Roberts was happy where he was and did not want to leave.
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In this context, J.C.R. Licklider, a psychologist, did a study of the human computer relationship and determined that for the present and the future it was crucial to develop a rapport, a symbiotic relationship between the human and the computer.
He felt that a computer could do many of the tasks he was doing and that there was a need to have a partnership between the human and the computer to facilitate scientific thinking.
He wrote scientists should be wary of government constraints on their freedom of speech and intellectual pursuits, and that it was also crucial to be wary of the constraints from industry on scientists and scientific exploration.
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 CITE Journal - Seminal Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Taylor framed potential uses of the computer as (a) tutor, computer assisted instruction in which the computer teaches the child, (b) tool, in which the computer amplifies ability to address academic tasks, and (c) tutee, in which students learn by programming (tutoring) the computer.
Dwyer is a computer scientist and educator at the University of Pittsburgh, who for a number of years ran a series of projects involving high school and junior high school teachers and students.
Papert suggests that the computer as tutee can, with appropriate graphic and robotic capabilities, serve as a means to enable the child to link his or her experience to the deep, fundamental mathematical ideas we most want children to learn.
www.citejournal.org /vol3/iss2/seminal/article1.cfm   (4078 words)

  
 Robert Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Taylor (developer) (born 1972-present), Owner of FlashExtensions.com, [1].
Robert was a highly respected politician for his community.
Robert A. Taylor, veterinarian and founder of the Alameda East Veterinary Hospital
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 Building the Internet: Bob Taylor won the National Medal of Technology "For visionary leadership in the development of ...
Taylor is not even a scientist himself, nor a Ph.D. Yet, he is credited with tenacious vision in pursuing projects, and with extraordinary skill in assembling and managing the teams of scientists who made it all happen.
Taylor recalls, his office in the Pentagon had a terminal connected to time-sharing community at MIT, a terminal connected to a different kind of computer at the University of California at Berkeley, and a third terminal to the Systems Development Corp. in Santa Monica.
Taylor created a free-wheeling culture among the semi-hippie young geniuses he assembled that contrasted starkly with staid Xerox and the conventional suit-and-tie image of IBM.
www.almanacnews.com /morgue/2000/2000_10_11.taylor.html   (2485 words)

  
 Nerds 2.0.1 - Twenty Minute Pitch
Robert Taylor, a young scientist who studied psychoacoustics and mathematics at the University of Texas, worked for NASA as a research administrator in the early 1960's.
In 1966, it was the leading edge of computer networking, but Taylor was tired of changing seats and instructions every time he needed to communicate with another computer.
Roberts had just built and tested the first transcontinental network between two computers, so he had as much experience as anyone in long-distance networks.
www.pbs.org /opb/nerds2.0.1/networking_nerds/taylor.html   (545 words)

  
 Robert Taylor (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Taylor (born 1932) was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (1965-69), founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) (1970-83), and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (1983-96).
Bob Taylor was born in Texas, the son of a Methodist minister.
Taylor was trained as an experimental psychologist and mathematician and his earliest career was devoted to brain research and the auditory nervous system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scientist)   (191 words)

  
 Robert William Taylor Biography | World of Computer Science
Taylor was also involved in fostering many new technologies that eventually became widely accepted essentials of computer and communication systems.
Licklider, Taylor co-authored the original 1968 paper The Computer as a Communications Device, which was one of the first published articles to communicate the value of networks.
Robert William Taylor was one of four individuals awarded the 1999 National Medal of Technology™, the United States's highest technology award.
www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-william-taylor-wcs   (657 words)

  
 Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option -- 1559277122 (Audio Renaissance.com)
Even though a terrorist group claims responsibility for the bombing, many in the intelligence community suspect the scientist was actually kidnapped and the bomb set to divert attention.
Chambord may have been close to devising a working molecular computer which, in the wrong hands, could be the most deadly weapon in the world.
Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) is the author of twenty-four bestselling novels published in thirty-two languages and forty countries.
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 Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Robert D. Taylor
Robert D. Taylor is a research scientist, successful businessman, and the CEO of Trend Corporation, Inc. His research in econo-physics has been vital to the development of economic modeling software, and earned him a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Economics in March 2000.
Nobel Prize-nominated research scientist and businessman Robert D. Taylor is trying his hand at fiction with his debut novel, PARADIGM.
It was a scientist by the name of J. Hurst who became perplexed by the fact that individuals around the world started buying or selling the stock market simultaneously without sharing the same instantaneous knowledge.
www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-taylor-robert.asp   (2243 words)

  
 Welcome to Squeakland
Robert Taylor was the founder and manager of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC from 1970 through 1983.
TAYLOR: Well, that's part of it, but part of it is also their being wedded to the products that they were then being successful with...
My vote for the first personal computer was done by a guy by the name of Wes Clark in the early '60s, and the idea was around--especially became an important idea when we started trying to do interactive graphics using time-sharing systems.
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 USATODAY.com - 1960s counterculture shaped the personal computer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Robert Taylor, the man who often found the money to fund the projects of Engelbart and others.
Fred Moore, who may have single-handedly sowed the first seeds of the antiwar movement in California that later spread across America, and who, along with another computer scientist named Ted Nelson, promoted the ideas that today have come to be represented in the open source software movement.
Markoff's book, in its own quiet way, through telling the story of the development of the personal computer, reminds the reader that many of the ideas and convictions that Americans now take for granted in our culture were developed and nurtured during this tumultuous decade.
usatoday.com /tech/products/books/2005-04-14-pc-peace-review_x.htm?...   (498 words)

  
 Miller Park community rises above the violence
As a scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Taylor believes in the importance of even a handful of computers inside a small room.
But if computer access or a computer volunteer taking time to reach out to a kid can in some small way prevent future menaces to society -- or even create future college grads and engineers -- I'm all for a public computer lab in every neighborhood center.
The computer lab stands to become a hub for young minds in the same way as the center's courts and nearby playfields are hubs for sports.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /jamieson/265417_robert04x.html?source=rss   (820 words)

  
 The Official Website of Dr. Robert M. Schoch
Schoch is a geologist well known for his research on the Great Sphinx, as well as for his studies of the underwater structure off the coast of Yonaguni Island, Japan, and other ancient sites and studies.
Robert Schoch has been researching the age of the Great Sphinx, located on the Giza Plateau of Egypt, in conjunction with John Anthony West and inspired by the earlier work of
Schoch speaks live at times so you can call in to ask questions, discuss matters that are of interest to you, and speak with other live guests on the show.
www.robertschoch.net   (1230 words)

  
 Computer Humor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backwards.
When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art.
Turing predicted that by the year 2000 a computer would exist that could pass his test and pass itself off as human.
www.teamtaylormade.com /taylor/Laughs/ComputerHumor.html   (9691 words)

  
 1000 Things Every Self-Respecting Computer Scientist Should Know
Computer science is the study of information processes.
The key difference between computer science and mathematics is that where mathematics is declarative (it deals with what is knowledge), computer science is imperative (it deals with how to knowledge).
Computer science centers on understanding how to describe procedures (that is, precise methods for manipulating information) and to reason about the information processes they encode.
www.cs.virginia.edu /~evans/talks/richmond   (914 words)

  
 UCLA Computer Scientist Alan Kay Wins Kyoto Prize... 6/16/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alan C. Kay, an adjunct professor of computer science at UCLA whose work in the 1960s and 1970s opened the door for the personal computing revolution, has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
Kay designed the GUI to use icons as graphical representations of computing functions — the folders, menus and overlapping windows — based on his research into the processes of learning and creativity.
Kay also is the co-designer of the FLEX Machine, an early desktop computer with graphical user interface and object‑oriented operating system, and the creator of the Dynabook, a laptop personal computer.
www.newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=5297   (983 words)

  
 UCLA Computer Scientist Alan Kay Wins Turing Award
Kay is widely known for his breakthrough concepts on personal computing and for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming language.
In the summer of 2002, Kay was invited to join the computer science department in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
ACM is the leading organization for computing professionals, delivering resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional development and promote policies and research that benefit society.
www.engineer.ucla.edu /stories/2004/turing.htm   (690 words)

  
 UCLA Computer Scientist Alan Kay Wins Kyoto Prize
Kay designed the GUI to use icons as graphical representations of computing functions - the folders, menus and overlapping windows - based on his research into the processes of learning and creativity.
Kay is also the co-designer of the FLEX Machine, an early desktop computer with graphical user interface and object-oriented operating system, and the creator of the Dynabook, a laptop personal computer for children of all ages.
He has a MS and PhD in computer science, both with distinction, from the University of Utah, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Kungl Tekniska Hoegskolan in Stockholm.
www.engineer.ucla.edu /stories/2004/kyoto.htm   (851 words)

  
 Computer Web Sites
Evolutionary Computation Repository (EnCoRe) - deserves an award for sheer exuberance, as well as its many links to all things related to evolutionary computation (e.g., genetic algorithms, etc.).
ACM Timeline of Computing - includes a full timeline as well as timelines filtered for particular categories of computing.
Markus Günther Kuhn - a computer scientist with on-line papers on divers subjects, including Unicode, which is how I happened to find his web site.
www.geonius.com /www/computers.html   (5038 words)

  
 CIOL : News : HP Labs scientist to receive Kyoto Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SAN FRANCISCO: Renowned computer scientist and Silicon Valley legend Alan Kay will be awarded one of technology's highest honors, the Kyoto Prize, Hewlett-Packard Co., where Kay works as a researcher, said.
Earlier this month, Kay received the Association of Computing Machinery's 2003 Turing Award for leading the team that invented Smalltalk and for fundamental contributions to personal computing.
In February, Kay and three former colleagues from Xerox PARC -- Butler Lampson, Robert Taylor and Charles Thacker -- shared the National Academy of Engineering's 2004 Charles Stark Draper Price for the development of a networked personal computer.
www.ciol.com /content/news/2004/104061106.asp   (551 words)

  
 An Internet Perspective Free Essay
A man and computer scientist Robert Taylor had developed a new system of communication that would change the world.
Taylor would connect two separate computers that were capable of communicating small bits of information between one another.
Consequently, this basic networking of computers would soon develop into something much bigger and more vast than what had originally been envisioned.
www.findfreepapers.com /viewpaper/877.html   (202 words)

  
 Robert Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Silcon Valley legend Alan Kay wins tech prize - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SAN FRANCISCO - Renowned computer scientist and Silicon Valley legend Alan Kay will be awarded one of technology's highest honors, the Kyoto Prize, Hewlett-Packard Co., where Kay works as a researcher, said Thursday.
It is Kay's third major scientific award this year, Palo Alto, Calif.-based H-P said in a statement.
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 Robert Taylor (computer scientist)
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 Robert Taylor | News, Biography, Images & Discussions
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The new musical by Cincinnati native Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor is set for major West Coast regional theater.
The new musical by Cincinnati native Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor has been booked into major West Coast regional theater the Old Globe in San Diego, beginning previews Jan. 13.
www.woofactor.com /Robert_Taylor   (175 words)

  
 CSAIL Event Calendar
Carver A. Mead, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technololgy
Robert E. Tarjan, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
David A. Turner, Professor of Computer Science University of Kent at Canterbury
www.csail.mit.edu /events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=series&id=50   (379 words)

  
 California, here they came, and your PC knows it | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was the time of the counterculture - a time of freedom and the willingness to try new things and follow notions that appeared, on the surface, not to make much sense at all.
WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID...: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
The individuals had the most unusual knack for crossing paths, and Markoff's ability to show these sometimes tangential - but always important - relationships, without losing the thread of the story, is impressive.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0412/p16s01-bogn.html   (521 words)

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