Call Number: OH 173
Interviewee: Blue, Allan
Interviewer: William Aspray
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 42 pp.
Abstract: The concentration in this interview is on the Information Processing Techniques Office from the time Blue arrived at DARPA in 1965 until his retirement in 1977. Topics discussed include: a trend to increase relevance of funded projects; increasing orientation to industry; increased paperwork and micromanagement from outside IPTO; comparison of DARPA offices management styles; relations with NSF, ONR, and NIH; the DARPA contracting process; and personnel hiring problems. 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.
Subject(s):
United States. -- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- Information Processing Techniques Office ; National Science Foundation (U.S.) ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.). ; Defense contracts -- United States ; Blue, Allan ; United States. -- Office of Naval Research
Citation: Allan Blue, OH 173. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 12 June 1989, Minnetonka, Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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