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A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA – By Eric Gilliam
Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history
But the following quote from Alexander McKenzie’s 1990 oral history — Mackenzie was BBN’s so-called “ARPAnet generalist” — makes it clear that these procurement changes had pronounced negative effects on DARPA performers, compared to how things used to be. Ling’s program made major breakthroughs in neurally integrated upper limb prosthetics and brain computer interfaces (BCIs) that helped lay the base for some of the ambitious BCI projects of today. Beyond the specific citations above, much of the general knowledge in the piece is indebted to the great books and oral histories on early IPTO conducted/written by Judy O’Neill, Arthur Norberg, William Aspray, Alex Roland, and Philip Shiman:
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