Oral History of Frank Heart
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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2018 · Science & Technology
Interviewed by Marc Weber and Gardner Hendrie, on 2009-06-03 in Cambridge, MA, X5408.2009 © Computer History Museum Frank Heart grew up in Yonkers, NY, and attended MIT, studying electrical engineering. Having found the Whirlwind computer in an MIT course, he switched his study to the application of digital computers. Heart moved to MIT's Lincoln Laboratory when the SAGE project moved there. When the SAGE system moved to MITRE, Heart stayed at Lincoln Lab working on the digital computer and interface aspects of communications and radar pointing systems. In 1966 he was recruited to Bolt Beranek and Newman to be involved in computer applications in health care but soon came to lead BBN's ARPANET IMP development effort. In the years that followed much early ARPANET and Internet research and development was done in BBN groups reporting to Heart. * Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterwards. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript text and the video recording. Please see the transcript for further information: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102702222 Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection. Catalog Number: 102746457 Lot Number: X6557.2013
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