Orange County Public Library Computer & Internet Use Policy
He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computer systems by way of which everyone could shortly access information and applications from any web site. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA,4starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. The low value and almost instantaneous sharing of ideas, information, and abilities has made collaborative work dramatically easier, with the help of collaborative software program.
Important innovations in computer architecture included index registers for controlling loops and floating point units for calculations based on real numbers. Floating point operations were performed by libraries of software routines in early computers, however were accomplished in hardware in second era machines. Each generation is characterised by dramatic improvements over the previous generation in the know-how used to build … Read More