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    Harp (redirect from Arpa llanera)
    music, also known as llanera music. the arpa central (also known as arpa mirandina 'of Miranda State’, and arpa tuyera 'of the Tuy Valleys’) is strung...
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    the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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    United States Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Independently, Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation proposed a distributed...
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    the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder...
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    propose that an arms race was inevitable. President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked ARPA to consider alternative concepts. Their Project Defender studied many approaches...
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  • following the positive initial results achieved by the FuZE device as part of ARPA-E's ALPHA program. The company was co-founded by British entrepreneur and...
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    Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1961 as the ARPA Midcourse Optical Station (AMOS). It was first proposed by R. Zirkind of ARPA's staff for imaging ballistic...
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  • Aspen Movie Map (category LaserDisc)
    developed by a team working with Andrew Lippman in 1978 with funding from ARPA. The Aspen Movie Map enabled the user to take a virtual tour through the...
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  • High-Yield Muon Catalyzed Fusion". Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). US Department of Energy. Retrieved 5 August 2023. Ericsson, Lisa (6 December...
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  • the Arpanet Finger protocol, "TIME", "SEND" for interactive messaging, "ARPA" for a gateway service to Arpanet. "DOVER" was the contact name for sending...
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  • presentation programs, and other modern computing concepts. It was funded by ARPA (the predecessor to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), NASA, and...
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    the Materials Science Center. Sproull left Cornell to become director of ARPA, where he was a strong advocate of cooperation among academia, government...
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    of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at The Pentagon's ARPA issued an office memorandum addressed to Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic...
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    the efficiency was far too low to be useful and further work was dropped. ARPA funding for Casaba-Howitzer continued for a time after the original Orion...
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  • Inc. delivers the first operational optical communications system under an ARPA contract to the US Army Missile Command, and the first commercial fiber optic...
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    ratio. ARPA responded by forming Project Defender, initially considering a wide variety of far-out concepts like particle beam weapons, lasers and huge...
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    terminal guidance phase. The ships are also equipped with two STN Atlas 9600-M ARPA navigation radars. In 2013, Atlas Elektronik and Thales Deutschland were...
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    10 m (33 ft) tenders 3 × Jet Skis 2 × Laser Pico dinghies Crew 24 Sensors and processing systems S & X-Band ARPA radar Aviation facilities Helicopter Deck...
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    (2). Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: 225–232. doi:10.5858/arpa.2013-0594-oa. ISSN 1543-2165. PMID 25611105. "Mastocytosis - Treatment Options"...
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    and time-sharing; variations in the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) attitude toward AI. Oral history interview with Terry Winograd at Charles...
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    Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Research into packet switching...
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    Optelecom, Inc., co-founded by the inventor of the laser, Gordon Gould, received a contract from ARPA for one of the first optical communication systems...
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    short-range anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system conceived by ARPA and developed by the US Army under ARPA's Project Defender program. Hardpoint was designed to...
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  • Returning to Boston he joined Bolt, Beranek and Newman.[citation needed] When ARPA issued a Request for Proposal for the ARPANET, he joined the group that wrote...
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  • Electrophoretic light scattering (also known as laser Doppler electrophoresis and phase analysis light scattering ) is based on dynamic light scattering...
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    funding was provided by NASA and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The test program restarted on 20 June 1994 with a 136-second flight. The...
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  • which he gave the name "packet switching." ... The design of the ARPA network (ArpaNet) was entirely changed to adopt this technique. "Pioneer: Donald...
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    Computer (ILLIAC) team. With funding from Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), they began the design of a newer concept with 256 64-bit processors instead...
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  • them out of business. He usually carries around a rocket umbrella for show. Arpa Default (voiced by April Winchell) is Gart and Robot's mother whose arrogance...
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  • Relativity. In 1993 he organized and was Lead Principal Investigator of an NSF/ARPA funded computational Grand Challenge program involving ten university teams...
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