Man-Computer Symbiosis (by JCR Licklider, 1960)


	Man-Computer Symbiosis (by JCR Licklider, 1960)

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<FONT size="6"><B>Man-Computer Symbiosis</B></FONT>
<P><B>J. C. R. Licklider</B>
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics,
volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960
</P></CENTER></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usabilityviews.com/uv005032.html" href="http://www.usabilityviews.com/uv005032.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usabilityviews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usabilityviews.com/uv005032.html"><B>Man-Computer Symbiosis by J C R Licklider</B><SMALL> (01 Mar 1960)</SMALL><BR /><DIV>
<SMALL><B>Article URL</B>: <A href="http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Licklider.pdf" >http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Licklider.pdf</A></SMALL></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._C._R._Licklider&oldid=224936446" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._C._R._Licklider&oldid=224936446" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._C._R._Licklider&oldid=224936446"><P><B>Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider</B> (<A title="March 11" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11">March 11</A>, <A title="1915" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915">1915</A> – <A title="June 26" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_26">June 26</A>, <A title="1990" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990">1990</A>), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an <A title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</A> <A title="Computer science" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science">computer scientist</A>, considered one of the most important figures in <A title="History of computer science" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science">computer science</A> and general <A class="mw-redirect" title="History of computer hardware" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware">computing history</A>. <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligence_amplification&oldid=225574466" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligence_amplification&oldid=225574466" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligence_amplification&oldid=225574466"><P>"<B>Man-Computer Symbiosis</B>" is a key speculative paper published in 1960 by <A title="Psychologist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist">psychologist</A>/<A title="Computer scientist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_scientist">computer scientist</A> <A title="J.C.R. Licklider" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C.R._Licklider">J.C.R. Licklider</A>, which envisions that mutually-interdependent, "living together", tightly-coupled human brains and computing machines would prove to complement each other's strengths to a high degree:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligence_amplification&oldid=225574466">In Licklider's vision, many of the pure artificial intelligence systems envisioned at the time by over-optimistic researchers would prove unnecessary.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E56D2D6E-D016-40F8-AE5D-02310E9573AD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>