Information Processing Techniques Office

But also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so... what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision and attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so... what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind, this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so... what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind, this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.

But also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so... what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind, this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so...

What they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so... what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind, this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies? as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so...

What they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

That's very evocative for many people, but also that we had an issue in which, as they start to think about, well, what can digital computers be as general information technologies, as opposed to these very highly specialized scientific calculation devices that they started out as, they had to start thinking about, like, how do we make them user-friendly, essentially? And this is the work that J.C.R.

Licklider really spearheaded when he took over or founded the Information Processing Techniques Office within DARPA or ARPA at the time.

And so what they're thinking about is like, well, how do we get data into machines in a way that's responsive, that's interactive, and that's sort of seamless and frictionless? And so throughout the, you know, even starting as early as like the mid to late 1950s, they're already starting to envision an attempt to build what are essentially speech interfaces into computers, despite the fact that we have to keep in mind, this was a moment in which we didn't even have typed like keyboard input into computers, right? Computers were input was put into computers via like electromagnetic switches and key punch later on.

But so we didn't even have this kind of standardized keyboard input that we have now at the time.