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:
One of the leaders of the 1968 walkouts in East Los Angeles. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.
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.
This series was made possible by support from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital and documents the history of that institution.
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences. Head of the UCLA Department of Psychology’s Division of Child Psychiatry, a division of the Neuropsychiatric Institute.