Transforming Computer Technology Information Processing For The Pentagon 1962

Over The Course Of Several Decades, The Pentagons Information Processing Techniques Office (ipto) Helped Transform Computing From A Cumbersome Enterprise Based On Batch Processing To The Instantly Interactive, Graphically Rich, Highly Intelligent Computing Of Today. With The Purpose Of Improving Command And Control Systems For The Military, Ipto Researchers Strengthened Time-sharing, Laid The Groundwork For Graphics And Parallel Processing, Contributed To The Study Of Artificial Intelligence, And Developed The Wide-area Network That Came To Be Known As The Internet. Transforming Computer Technology Examines These And Other Developments At The Defense Departments Advanced Research Projects Agency In Its Heyday Between 1962 And 1986.