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Jack Ruina

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role in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  • In Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: Organization

    For example, DARPA’s third director, Jack Ruina (1961–63), recognized that the problem of command, control, and communication of the nation’s military forces was one that computer technology might affect. Thus, in 1962 Ruina oversaw the creation of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) under the direction of Joseph Licklider, a…

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