J. C. R. Licklider
| Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider | |
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| Born |
March 11, 1915 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | June 26, 1990 (aged 75) Symmes Hospital, Arlington, Massachusetts |
| Other names | J. C. R Lick "Computing's Johnny Appleseed" |
| Known for |
Cybernetics/Interactive computing "Intergalactic Computer Network" (Internet) Artificial Intelligence |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Carpenter |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis University of Rochester |
| Academic work | |
| Influenced | Jerome I. Elkind |
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (/ˈlɪklaɪdər/; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history.
He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. He did much to actually initiate this by funding research which led to much of it, including today's canonical graphical user interface, and the ARPANET, the direct predecessor to the Internet.
He has been called "computing's Johnny Appleseed", for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age; Robert Taylor, founder of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory and Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center, noted that "most of the significant advances in computer technology—including the work that my group did at Xerox PARC—were simply extrapolations of Lick's vision. They were not really new visions of their own. So he was really the father of it all".
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