Robert Taylor

…1964, and two years later Robert Taylor became IPTO director. Taylor would become a key figure in ARPANET’s development, partly because of his observational abilities. In the Pentagon’s IPTO office, Taylor had access to three teletype terminals, each hooked up to one of three remote ARPA-supported time-sharing mainframe computers—at Systems…

His first hire was Robert Taylor, a former deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which had established a government-sponsored network of research databases that played a key role in creating the Internet. At ARPA Taylor had been at the centre of a network of people engaged…

Licklider and Robert Taylor, who as research administrators for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) set in motion the research that resulted in the creation of the first such community, the ARPANET, which was the precursor of the Internet. Licklider and Taylor wrote,