| Title: |
Robert S. Cooper
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| Local code: |
OH 255
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Charles Babbage Institute
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| Collection: |
Charles Babbage Institute Oral History Program
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| Description: |
Cooper discusses his graduate education in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his
interest in computer applications to approach problems in plasma physics. He discusses the types of research
supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the Information Processing Techniques Office
(IPTO), and the Department of Defense (DOD) in the 1970s and 1980s. He mentions his move in the early 1980s from
DOD to military space research at NASA. Cooper concludes the interview with a discussion of innovative
technology in military and space research. This interview was recorded as part of a research project on the influence
of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the development of computer science in the
United States.
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| Extent: |
42 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=91
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1993 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Cooper, Robert S., 1932-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1932
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| Speaker occupation: |
Electrical engineer
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| Age at speaking: |
61
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| Document location: |
Greenbelt, MD
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| Document date: |
03-Sep-1993
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| Interviewer: |
Norberg, Arthur L.
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Computer software; Electric engineering; Engineering; Information technology; North America; Oral history; Software engineering; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023927-25464
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