Transforming Computer Technology Alex Kendall and the mutable ideal of

and the mutable ideal of beauty that reminds us how unchanging is the American search for self-improvement

from the teenager celebrating confirmation to the elderly looking back on a long life

with the high-octane decade of the Roaring Twenties

and life in the infant colony of Parramatta

and Chris Carter

Transforming Computer Technology Alex Kendall and the mutable ideal ofOver the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing,