Detail map of Arlington, Virginia, United States Overview map of Arlington, Virginia, United States

A: Arlington, Virginia, United States

Licklider at the Information Processing Techniques Office, Begins Funding Research that Leads to the ARPANET

10/1/1962

On October 1, 1962 J.C. R. Licklider was appointed Director of The Pentagon’s Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), a division of ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency).

Licklider's initial budget was $10,000,000 per year. Licklider eventually initiated the sequence of events leading to ARPANET.

Timeline Themes