Robert Taylor was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (1965-69), founder and associate manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL ^*) (1970-77), manager of Xerox PARC CSL (1977-83), founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (1983-96).

Bob Taylor was born in Texas, the son of a minister. Bob Taylor was trained as an experimental psychologist and his earliest career was devoted to brain research and the auditory nervous system. After working for a defense contractor, Martin Marietta and after he submitted a research proposal to NASA, Taylor was invited to joined NASA in 1961.

External links

• Article from kurzweilai.net
• Building the Internet A biography of Robert Taylor
• Robert Taylor, from ARPAnet to XEROX Extract from 'Tools for Thought' by Howard Rheingold

Year of birth missing