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Born Day
J.C.R Licklider was born in St. Louis, Mo. (Fano 1998) -
Graduations
J.C.R Licklider graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with majors in Psychology, Mathematics, and physics. (Fano 1998) -
A Master's Degree
J.C.R Licklider was awarded an M.A. in psychology from the same University. -
Ph.D and Harvard’s Pyscho-Acoustics Laboratory.
J.C.R Licklider received a Ph.D. degree in psychology at the University of Rochester and joined Harvard’s Pyscho-Acoustics Laboratory. As a matter of fact, he created "the first maps of neural activity on the auditory cortex, locating the regions crucial to our ability to hear musical pitch" as his doctoral dissertation. (Fano 1998) -
Lecturer at Harvard
J.C.R Licklider received a non-tenure appointment as a lecturer at Harvard University. -
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Wartime Research
J.C.R Licklider involved in wartime research and investigated "the intelligibility of speech distorted in all sorts of ways, and in the presence of various types of additive noise" (Fano 1998). His research was presented after the end of the war "in a series of papers, many of them co-authored with various colleagues" (Fano 1998). His discovery led to significant equipment improvements (Fano 1998). Link: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nbradley/afrl/PAPERS/IntelligibilityOfInterruptedSpeech.pdf -
Patent And Recognitions
J.C.R Licklider was granted a patent and "the Biennial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of America" (at the 1950 spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America) after discovering a method for artfully "distorting radio transmissions to emphasize consonants over vowels and thus make words stand out against a background of radio static and mechanized cacophony" (Fano 1998). -
MIT expericences
J.C.R Licklider was appointed as an associate professor at the MIT and director of the Acoustics Laboratory (Fano 1998) -
Publication of Theories
J.C.R Licklider published his "duplex theory of pitch perception" and extended in 1956 to "a triplex theory covering binaural perception" (Fano 1998). He contributed two chapters (1951), "one co-authored with George Miller, to the Handbook of Experimental Psychology, edited by S. S. Stevens "(Fano 1998).
Link: http://129.199.80.1/Audition/adc/stuff/Licklider_1951_Experimentia.pdf -
Annual Review of Psychology
J.C.R Licklider contributed the chapter on hearing to the 1953 Annual Review of Psychology (Fano 1998).
Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ps.04.020153.000513 -
Paper on Man-Computer Symbiosis
J.C.R Licklider published a paper on man-computer symbiosis. The paper describes "the procedure em-ployed in auditory analgesia and the clinical evidence available about it" (Fano 1998). Next, it presents "a psychophysiological model of the interaction of the auditory stimulus with the pain that results in the suppression of the latter" (Fano 1998). Link: http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider%20-%20Man-Computer%20Symbiosis.pdf -
IPTO and ARPA Contributions
J.C.R Licklider became the first director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense (Fano 1998). Most Importantly, he launched "a research program after his vision of man-computer symbiosis after having the vision of a future intimate collaboration between man and computer in which each partner would supplement and extend the capabilities of the other" (Fano 1998). -
Book: Libraries of the Future
J.C.R Licklider published a book titled "Libraries of the Future". This book presents Lick’s vision of man-computer symbiosis. In detail, this book consists of "analysis of the intellectual processes involved in the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge" (Fano 1998). This is followed by a description of the structure and usage of the “procognitive systems” he envisioned, capable of searching the body of documents under user control" (Fano 1998). -
Paper: The Computer as a Communication Device
J.C.R published a book titled "The Computer as a Communication Device" in Science and Technology. [Co-author: Robert W. Taylor]
(Fano 1998)
Link: https://signallake.com/innovation/LickliderApr68.pdf -
Passed Away
J.C.R Licklider passed away in Arlington, Massachusetts
