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J.C.R. Licklider, in full Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, (born March 11, 1915, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died June 26, 1990, Arlington, Massachusetts), American computer scientist who helped lay the groundwork for computer networking and ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet.

In 1962, Dr. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider formulated the earliest ideas of global networking in a series of memos discussing an “Intergalactic Computer Network.” Both well-liked and well-respected, he demonstrated an amazing prescience many times over.

Licklider, who was both a psychologist and computer scientist, described the need for transactional systems that would eventually respond to its human creators in real time. But he didn’t stop...

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, more affectionately known as J.C.R. or “Lick”, was an American Psychologist and Computer Scientist pioneer. During the infancy of computing and before the birth of networks, he worked with limited technology to develop the vision of potential computer symbiosis with human behavior that led to modern computing and the internet.

En octubre de 1962, Licklider fue nombrado jefe de la Oficina de Técnicas de Procesamiento de la Información (IPTO) en ARPA, en la Agencia de Investigación de Proyectos Avanzados de Defensa de Estados Unidos . En 1963, fue nombrado Director de Ciencias del Comportamiento de Mando y Controlde Investigación en ARPA.