J. C. R. Licklider was a computer scientist best known for his pioneering research in artificial intelligence and whose work established the technological basis for the concepts of time sharing and resource sharing. Licklider was the only child of...

J. C. R. Licklider, born on March 11, 1915, was first and foremost a psychologist. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Washington University in 1937 and 1938, respectively, and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester in 1942. In...

The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. M. Mitchell Waldrop. New York: Viking, 2001. 503 pp. $29.95. Licklider, J. C. R. "In 'The Dream Machine,' M. Mitchell Waldrop has written a sprawling history of...

As the director of command-and-control research at the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the Pentagon, Licklider in 1962 was an unlikely bureaucrat with a big dream. He was an experimental psychologist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and computers were considered by most...