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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was born in 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri. -
Attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned his master's degree in psychology. -
Completed his doctorate in psychoacoustics at The University of Rochester. -
Spent seven years working at the Harvard psychoacoustics lab.
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Relocated to MIT to study correlations within psychology and technology as an assistant professor. -
Working with John McCarthy, JCR Licklider developed a system known as computer time-sharing. This innovation made batch processing obsolete and ushered in a new era of interactive computing. -
Using funds provided by the military, Licklider assembled a group of engineers and psychologists and formed The Lincoln Laboratory as a means to improve human-computer interaction. -
Licklider is given the Franklin V. Taylor Award by The Society of Engineering Psychologists. -
The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment was developed at the Lincoln Laboratory as a means for pilots to receive information in real-time. Licklider's role in SAGE was to design how information was to be presented on the user's screens. -
Elected president of The Acoustical Society of America. -
In 1957, Licklider became Vice President of Bolt Beraneck and Newman, Inc. It was here that he purchased the first PDP-1 computer which became a key component in developing the emergent hacking culture -
Moved to Washington to run a new entity known as the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). -
Became the Director of Behavioral Sciences Command and Control Research for ARPA. -
Oversaw Project MAC at MIT as the director, and began teaching in the electrical engineering department. -
Officially retired while retaining his title as a professor emeritus. -
Passed away from an asthma attack.
