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291. Interview of Barry Wessler

Topic:
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Research manager for the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet. Co-founder of GTE Telenet, an early packet switch service company.

292. Interview of Charles Herzfeld

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Director of the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet.

293. Interview of Alan Kay

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Researcher for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the government that develops technology for the military. UCLA adjunct professor of computer science.

294. Interview of Rita Ledesma

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
California State University, Los Angeles, professor of child and family studies. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.

295. Interview of Alberto Juarez

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
UCLA student activist and recruiter for the High Potential Program.

296. Interview of Kogee Thomas

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
Counselor for the UCLA High Potential Program and associate director for the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.

297. Interview of William Naylor

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The purpose of this oral history series is to document the context and early technological development of the ARPANET, the network that went online in 1969 and grew into the Internet. Interviewees include the Center’s Principal Investigator, three researchers, and the center administrator. The ...
Biographical Note:
Member of the research team at the Network Measurement Center for UCLA’s U.S. Defense Department sponsored ARPANET project which created a “wide-area packet-switched network.”

298. Interview of Sondra Hale

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Social Movements
UCLA Faculty
Women's Issues
Length:
11.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of anthropology, chair of gender studies, co-chair of Islamic studies, and co-director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

299. Interview of Bobbette Glover

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Los Angeles County Community Development Commission. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.

300. Interview of Carlos Haro

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews document the rise of Chicano studies at UCLA and the founding of the Chicano Studies Research Center. Interviewees were involved in Chicano studies in the late 1960s and early ‘70s as students, faculty, or staff.
Biographical Note:
Postdoctoral scholar in residence and assistant director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. As a student at UCLA, was involved in the Chicano student movement on campus and the drive for the establishment of the research center.