Project Charles

Project Charles was a summer study group held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), of which F.W. Loomis was the appointed head.[1][2]

An agreement was formed between U.S. General Gordon Saville, Louis Ridenour, Ivan Getting and John McCone of the U.S. Air Force and designated leaders of MIT, for the formation of the project. Preceding events such as the Korean War and the first detonation of a nuclear device by the then U.S.S.R., during the 29th of August 1949, were possible catalysts and pre-conditions for the military to find it necessary to form the project. Initially a letter contract was issued during January the 30th of 1951, and the two parties entered into contractual obligations during the 6th of August 1951 via Basic Agreement AF18(600)-11. The agreement was formalized as AF19(122)-458 during February 1952, and continued until the 1st day of January 1959.[2][2][3][4][5]

At its initiation, the task of the project was to address by analysis, the problem of the development of technology to use for an effective air defence of the U.S. The goal of the project was to create a network of computers connected to a command centre in order to organise a response to a threat from within U.S. air-space.[2][6]

The project was active during February 1951, and released its report during the 1st day of August of the same year.[2][5][7]

MITRE Corporation assumed the responsibilities identified as the project from January the 1st 1959, and the work developed ultimately into the SAGE project.[2][6]

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References

  1. ↑ R. Rappold. Biography of J.C.R. Licklider. published by The Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 K.C. Redmond & T.M. Smith. From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer. published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009, ISBN 0262264269. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  3. ↑ edited by B. Leonard. History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume I: 1944-1955. DIANE Publishing 2010, 275 pages, ISBN 1437921302. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  4. ↑ O. Bukharin, P. Leonardovich Podvig, T. Kadyshev, F. Von Hippel, E. Miasnikov - Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces MIT Press 2004 (reprint), 692 pages, ISBN 0262661810 [Retrieved 2015-08-09]
  5. 1 2 K.L. Wildes, N.A. Lindgren. A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982. MIT Press 1 Jan 1985, 423 pages, ISBN 0262231190. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  6. 1 2 A. Roland, P. Shiman. Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993. published by MIT Press 2002, 427 pages, ISBN 0262182262, The MIT Press series in the history of computing. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  7. ↑ S. Bridger - Scientists at War published by Harvard University Press, 6 Apr 2015, ISBN 067442610X [Retrieved 2015-08-09]
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