Profile: Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor's Profile
Bob Taylor was the director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1966 to 1969 (at which time he was replaced by Larry Roberts). Taylor first conveived the idea for building the ARPANET and obtained $1 million in funding to begin the project. To head up the construction, Taylor recruited Larry Roberts from Lincoln Lab. Prior to joining ARPA, Taylor was a research administrator at NASA. Later in his career, Taylor founded the computer science lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.

Bob Taylor's Profile

Bob Taylor was the director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1966 to 1969 (at which time he was replaced by Larry Roberts). Taylor first conveived the idea for building the ARPANET and obtained $1 million in funding to begin the project. To head up the construction, Taylor recruited Larry Roberts from Lincoln Lab. Prior to joining ARPA, Taylor was a research administrator at NASA. Later in his career, Taylor founded the computer science lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.