Charles Herzfield: Director of DARPA and the Godfather of ARPANET
“People are as important as ideas.” (Herzfeld 2005)
There are two Charles Herzfield (Charles Herzfeld), one worked on the creation of the films "Black Swan", "Wrestler" and "Her", the other , being the director of DARPA , made a personal decision to create ARPANET .
ARPANET objectives:
- conducting experiments in the field of computer communications;
- combining the scientific potential of research institutions;
- exploring ways to maintain stable communication in a nuclear attack;
- development of the concept of distributed control of military and civilian structures during the war.
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Charles himself said the following: "It’s not a problem." It’s a mission to do this; In fact, we would have been severely criticized. Rather, the ARPANET has come to you, and it has been geographically separated from them. ”
Short biography under the cut
He was born in Austria on June 29, 1925, but then migrated to America and received citizenship there.
He studied at the University of Chicago and got to von Neumann’s lectures and “caught fire” with information technology.
First, Charles Hertzfild worked as a physicist from 1951 to 1953 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, the one where they studied the shot at Kennedy) and from 1953 to 1955 at the Naval Research Laboratory (the same one where Railgun is being built).
September 29, 1961 went to work at DARAP (then ARPA), Project Defender program coordinator, harbinger of US missile defense , (1961-1963)
In DARPA, Charles Hertzfild learned a lot about the “spiritual father of the worldwide network,” Joseph Liklider (a physicist, mathematician, psychologist, psychoacoustics ) who expressed ideas
- the need to create computers that work in real time
- the need to create a network of computers with free access to any person from anywhere in the world to its resources ( Intergalactic Computer Network )
- about computers with simple user interfaces ( Man – Computer Symbiosis )
- about the principle of pointing and selection (point-and-click),
- as well as anticipated such phenomena as digital libraries, e-commerce (e-commerce), remote banking services (online banking), cloud computing
From 1963 to 1965 he was deputy director, and from 1965 to 1967 he was director of DARPA
After leaving DARPA, he worked in the business sector (from 1967 to 1985 at ITT Corporation , from 1985 to 1990 at Aetna ), then in 1990 he returned to the defense industry Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1990-1991).
To this day, she works as a consultant for private and government companies.
In 2012, was introduced by the Internet Society in the Internet Hall of Fame
Favorite technology: Google Earth and similar sites. “A modern magic carpet that will take to any point. When I was a child, I dreamed about him, now I have it. ”
Hobbies: Diving and underwater photography
Slogan: "You owe it to the world, never give up"
Epitaph: “My life is a great journey. I was a great traveler. ”
Favorite movie: Casablanca
What people do not know about you: "I am very shy, despite the external impression."
The article tells about the meeting of Charles Hertzfild and Joseph Liclayder, setting the problem, what to do with the data flow from the 150 Mbit / s missiles, about the meeting with Bob Taylor
How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
www.netaffair.org/people/Charles_Herzfeld
The Grill: ARPA Pioneer Charles M. Herzfeld on the Hot Seat
Interview in English about working life godfather ARPANET
What was your introduction to computing?
He was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, in 1948; He was instructed in the ENIAC built up It was hugely important stuff.
Then, ARC, JCR Licklider gave me one or three lectures. He said that we’re really pretty stupid. I think theres a better way. He was a brilliant man, and I became a disciple of his.
In the ARPA together with the Licklider Office
Yes. IPTO was one of the things at ARPA that I became godfather of. If it’s got into trouble.
[The IPTO] I’m claiming to be the godfather, not the father. And as godfather,
What else did you do as godfather?
I signed the first two or three orders in 1966 and 1967 as director. I said, however, it is small and crappy it is. But I had recruited Bob Taylor as the follow-on.
One day, he got $ 1 million in 20 minutes. [When he recipes this story] I was sure that networking computers would change computing. I thought it was a licklider.
In those days, did you casually hand out big sums like that very often?
Whenever it was needed. It was a long list of things. I was ruthless about that.
What else did ipto do in those early times?
We created the whole artificial intelligence community. And we created the computer science world. When we started [IPTO], there were no computer science or computer science. None.
DARPA has pulled back from long-range, high-risk projects?
There certainly has been a change. But it may be inevitable.
Im not sure now could be the old ARPA nowadays. It would be illegal, perhaps. We now understand everything about substance.
It was very broadly technically IPO. We structured it. It is very hard to do that today.
But why? Do big things
Because you’re too busy, you don’t really want to know.
You, Department X, will do Y, theyd say, Yes, sir. Now they say, Well get back to you. I blame Congress for a good part of it. And agency heads are all wishy-washy. Whats missing is leadership?
FBI had been given emergency response responders, including weapons of mass destruction. But, the Post said, many of the kits didn’t work. What kind of report?
We are becoming incapable of handling a major challenge. We are losing the ability to do big, complicated things. In your example, it’s not a problem. They only thought about buying the radios.
Is it partly a failure of technology?
Absolutely not. We haven’t been buying every day. Whats missing is leadership? The whole thing is just off the rails.
Whats going on at the National Science Foundation?
My friends complain that they have to submit one funded. Cuckoo And its tremendously demoralizing and very inefficient. The process is too risk-averse. But doing really good research is a high-risk proposition. If the system doesn’t have to think about small problems.
Could there be another unhappy surprise like Sputnik?
Yes, I expect it. Someone is doing a lot of people. There is terrorism. New York Harbor.
He was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, in 1948; He was instructed in the ENIAC built up It was hugely important stuff.
Then, ARC, JCR Licklider gave me one or three lectures. He said that we’re really pretty stupid. I think theres a better way. He was a brilliant man, and I became a disciple of his.
In the ARPA together with the Licklider Office
Yes. IPTO was one of the things at ARPA that I became godfather of. If it’s got into trouble.
[The IPTO] I’m claiming to be the godfather, not the father. And as godfather,
What else did you do as godfather?
I signed the first two or three orders in 1966 and 1967 as director. I said, however, it is small and crappy it is. But I had recruited Bob Taylor as the follow-on.
One day, he got $ 1 million in 20 minutes. [When he recipes this story] I was sure that networking computers would change computing. I thought it was a licklider.
In those days, did you casually hand out big sums like that very often?
Whenever it was needed. It was a long list of things. I was ruthless about that.
What else did ipto do in those early times?
We created the whole artificial intelligence community. And we created the computer science world. When we started [IPTO], there were no computer science or computer science. None.
DARPA has pulled back from long-range, high-risk projects?
There certainly has been a change. But it may be inevitable.
Im not sure now could be the old ARPA nowadays. It would be illegal, perhaps. We now understand everything about substance.
It was very broadly technically IPO. We structured it. It is very hard to do that today.
But why? Do big things
Because you’re too busy, you don’t really want to know.
You, Department X, will do Y, theyd say, Yes, sir. Now they say, Well get back to you. I blame Congress for a good part of it. And agency heads are all wishy-washy. Whats missing is leadership?
FBI had been given emergency response responders, including weapons of mass destruction. But, the Post said, many of the kits didn’t work. What kind of report?
We are becoming incapable of handling a major challenge. We are losing the ability to do big, complicated things. In your example, it’s not a problem. They only thought about buying the radios.
Is it partly a failure of technology?
Absolutely not. We haven’t been buying every day. Whats missing is leadership? The whole thing is just off the rails.
Whats going on at the National Science Foundation?
My friends complain that they have to submit one funded. Cuckoo And its tremendously demoralizing and very inefficient. The process is too risk-averse. But doing really good research is a high-risk proposition. If the system doesn’t have to think about small problems.
Could there be another unhappy surprise like Sputnik?
Yes, I expect it. Someone is doing a lot of people. There is terrorism. New York Harbor.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/228137/
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