Frases de Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider , conocido como J.C.R. o «Lick», fue un informático estadounidense, considerado una de las figuras más importantes en ciencia computacional y de historia de la informática. Lo recuerdan particularmente por ser unos de los primeros que previó la computación interactiva moderna, y su aplicación a toda clase de actividades; fue pionero de Internet, con una visión temprana de una red de ordenadores mundial mucho antes de que fuera construida. Hizo lo posible para hacerlo realidad mediante su financiación para la investigación, incluyendo la interfaz gráfica de usuario, ARPANET, y el predecesor directo de Internet.



Más de una década pasará antes de la salida de los ordenadores personales de los garajes de Silicon Valley, y treinta años antes de la explosión de Internet en los 90. La palabra computadora todavía tenía un tono siniestro, dando la imagen de un dispositivo enorme, intimidante, oculto bien lejos en un sótano con aire acondicionado, procesando sin parar las tarjetas perforadas de largas instrucciones.

Sin embargo, sentado en una oficina indescriptible de McNamara en El Pentágono, un lugar tranquilo... civil, está planeando la revolución que cambiará por siempre la manera en que se perciben las computadoras. De alguna manera, el ocupante de esa oficina... ha visto un futuro en el cual las computadoras ayudaran a las personas, en vez de forzarlos a una conformidad. Él es casi el único convencido de que las computadoras no son sólo máquinas para calcular, sino las alegres máquinas: herramientas que servirán como nuevos medios de expresión, inspiraciones a la creatividad, y entradas a un mundo extenso donde la información está en línea.[1]​



Ha sido llamado como el «Johnny Appleseed de la computación», por haber plantado las semillas de la informática en la era digital. Robert Taylor, fundador del Laboratorio de Ciencia Informática de Xerox PARC y del Centro de Investigación de Sistemas de Digital Equipment Corporation, señaló que «la mayor parte de los avances significativos en tecnología informática —incluyendo el trabajo que mi grupo hizo en Xerox PARC— eran simplemente extrapolaciones de la visión de Lick. No eran realmente sus nuevas visiones. Él era realmente el padre todo esto».[2]​

✵ 11. marzo 1915 – 26. junio 1990
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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider: Frases en inglés

“It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in fields for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it.”

Licklider (1950) quotes in: Claude E. Shannon " The redundancy of English http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/doc/shannon_redundancy.pdf". In: Claus Pias, Heinz von Foerster eds. (2003) Cybernetics: Transactions. p. 270.
Contexto: It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in fields for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it. In psychology, at least in the psychology of communication, it seems to fit with a fair approximation. When it occurs that the learnability of material is roughly proportional to the information content calculated | by the theory, I think it looks interesting. There may have to be modifications, of course. For example, I think that the human receiver of information gets more out of a message that is encoded into a broad vocabulary (an extensive set of symbols) and presented at a slow pace, than from a message, equal in information content, that is encoded into a restricted set of symbols and presented at a faster pace. Nevertheless, the elementary parts of the theory appear to be very useful. I say it may be dangerous to use them, but I don’t think the danger will scare us off.

“I came to MIT from Harvard University, where I was a lecturer. I had been at the Harvard Psychoacoustic Laboratory during World War II and stayed on at Harvard as a lecturer, mainly doing research, but also a little bit of teaching—statistics and physiological psychology—subjects like that.
Then there came a time that I thought that I had better go pay attention to my career. I had just been having a marvelous time there. I am not a good looker for jobs; I just came to the nearest place I could, which was in our city. I arranged to come down here and start up a psychology section, which we hoped would eventually become a psychology department. For the purposes of having a base of some kind I was in the Electrical Engineering Department. I even taught a little bit of electrical engineering.
I fell in love with the summer study process that MIT had. They had one on undersea warfare and overseas transport—a thing called Project Hartwell. I really liked that. It was getting physicists, mathematicians—everybody who could contribute—to work very intensively for a period of two or three months. After Hartwell there was a project called Project Charles, which was actually two years long (two summers and the time in between). It was on air defense. I was a member of that study. They needed one psychologist and 20 physicists. That led to the creation of the Lincoln Laboratory. It got started immediately as the applied section of the Research Laboratory for Electronics, which was already a growing concern at MIT.”

Licklider in: " An Interview with J. C. R. LICKLIDER http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107436/1/oh150jcl.pdf" conducted by William Aspray and Arthur Norberg on 28 October 1988, Cambridge, MA.

“Present-day computers are designed primarily to solve preformulated problems or to process data according to predetermined procedures. The course of the computation may be conditional upon results obtained during the computation, but all the alternatives must be foreseen in advance. … The requirement for preformulation or predetermination is sometimes no great disadvantage. It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly, that it disciplines the thought process. If the user can think his problem through in advance, symbiotic association with a computing machine is not necessary.
However, many problems that can be thought through in advance are very difficult to think through in advance. They would be easier to solve, and they could be solved faster, through an intuitively guided trial-and-error procedure in which the computer cooperated, turning up flaws in the reasoning or revealing unexpected turns in the solution. Other problems simply cannot be formulated without computing-machine aid. … One of the main aims of man-computer symbiosis is to bring the computing machine effectively into the formulative parts of technical problems.
The other main aim is closely related. It is to bring computing machines effectively into processes of thinking that must go on in "real time," time that moves too fast to permit using computers in conventional ways. Imagine trying, for example, to direct a battle with the aid of a computer on such a schedule as this. You formulate your problem today. Tomorrow you spend with a programmer. Next week the computer devotes 5 minutes to assembling your program and 47 seconds to calculating the answer to your problem. You get a sheet of paper 20 feet long, full of numbers that, instead of providing a final solution, only suggest a tactic that should be explored by simulation. Obviously, the battle would be over before the second step in its planning was begun. To think in interaction with a computer in the same way that you think with a colleague whose competence supplements your own will require much tighter coupling between man and machine than is suggested by the example and than is possible today.”

J. C. R. Licklider Man-Computer Symbiosis

Man-Computer Symbiosis, 1960

“It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.”

J. C. R. Licklider Libraries of the future

appear on the display.
Fuente: Libraries of the future, 1965, p. 100 as cited in: Recent advances in display media (1982). Vol. 3, p. 177.

“[The computer is also the direct descendant of the telegraph as it enables one… to] "transmit information without transporting material"”

J. C. R. Licklider Libraries of the future

Fuente: Libraries of the future, 1965, p. 6 as cited in: Rodney James Giblett (2008) Sublime communication technologies. p. 175.

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