Robert Taylor

American computer scientist (1932–2017)

Organizations and connections

Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.

1. Robert Taylor→University of Texas at Austin

   Educated at

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2. Robert Taylor→Digital Equipment Corporation

   Works or worked for

   employed byDates not recordedWikidata statement
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3. Robert Taylor→Xerox PARC

   Works or worked for

   employed by1970–1983Wikidata statement
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4. Robert Taylor→Association for Computing Machinery

   Member of

   member ofFrom 1994 · end not recordedWikidata statement
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5. Robert Taylor→Martin Marietta

   Works or worked for

   employed byThrough 1961 · start not recordedWikidata statement
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6. Robert Taylor→NASA

   Works or worked for

   employed by1961–1965Wikidata statement
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   • Wikidata: Robert Taylor ↗Wikidata
7. Robert Taylor→DEC Systems Research Center

   Works or worked for

   employed byFrom 1983 · end not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Robert Taylor ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q93038$76255c19-4fab-1e9e-5ebe-66ba2bae24e9No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
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8. Robert Taylor→DARPA

   Works or worked for

   employed by1965–1969Wikidata statement
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   • Wikidata: Robert Taylor ↗Wikidata
9. Robert Taylor→University of Utah

   Works or worked for

   employed by1969–1970Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Robert Taylor ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q93038$725c6006-41c0-825d-520a-e4dbd2985be0No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Robert Taylor ↗Wikidata
10. Donald Davies↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Protocol Wars ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-05-10
11. Katie Hafner↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The cybernetics scare and the origins of the Internet (2009) ↗balticworlds.com · 2021-09-27
12. Douglas Engelbart↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (1985) ↗www.rheingold.com · 2019-11-18
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
13. Les Earnest↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Of Modes and Men (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2020-02-21
    • Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2024-08-14
    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
14. Peter Samson↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
15. Charles P. Thacker↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Look on my inventions, ye mighty - and take careful note ↗www.theguardian.com · 2000-12-10
16. John Warnock↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992) ↗www.cringely.com · 2023-09-07
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
17. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt ↗medium.com · 2015-10-17
18. Lynn Conway↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
19. John Glenn↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
20. Alan Kotok↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
21. Felix Bloch↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
22. Robert Metcalfe↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Protocol Wars ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-05-10
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
    • Look on my inventions, ye mighty - and take careful note ↗www.theguardian.com · 2000-12-10
23. Paul Allen↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992) ↗www.cringely.com · 2023-09-07
24. Richard Feynman↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
25. Steve Crocker↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet ↗technicshistory.wordpress.com · 2019-07-11
26. Robert Kahn↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet ↗www.freaktakes.com · 2024-01-04
    • Protocol Wars ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-05-10
    • Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022) ↗siliconfolklore.com · 2024-07-30
    • Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever ↗www.theguardian.com · 2009-10-23
27. Carver Mead↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
28. Charles Simonyi↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992) ↗www.cringely.com · 2023-09-07
    • Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (2008) ↗www.moserware.com · 2019-07-15
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
    • Look on my inventions, ye mighty - and take careful note ↗www.theguardian.com · 2000-12-10
29. Charles Geschke↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
30. Hans Bethe↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
31. Alan Kay↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Of Modes and Men (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2020-02-21
    • Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC ↗limn.it · 2017-07-20
    • Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2024-08-14
32. J. Robert Oppenheimer↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
33. Ivan Sutherland↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet ↗technicshistory.wordpress.com · 2019-07-11
    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
34. Fred Brooks↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
35. John Lasseter↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Of Modes and Men (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2020-02-21
    • Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2024-08-14
36. Jon Postel↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet ↗technicshistory.wordpress.com · 2019-07-11
37. Alan Perlis↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) ↗worrydream.com · 2022-04-17
38. Tim Berners-Lee↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever ↗www.theguardian.com · 2009-10-23
39. Steve Jobs↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Of Modes and Men (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2020-02-21
    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992) ↗www.cringely.com · 2023-09-07
    • Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2024-08-14
    • The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) ↗worrydream.com · 2022-04-17
40. Bill Gates↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 – Font Wars (1992) ↗www.cringely.com · 2023-09-07
    • Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (2008) ↗www.moserware.com · 2019-07-15
    • Look on my inventions, ye mighty - and take careful note ↗www.theguardian.com · 2000-12-10
41. Eric Schmidt↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt ↗medium.com · 2015-10-17
42. Gary Starkweather↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) ↗worrydream.com · 2022-04-17
    • Look on my inventions, ye mighty - and take careful note ↗www.theguardian.com · 2000-12-10
43. Leonard Kleinrock↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet ↗www.freaktakes.com · 2024-01-04
44. Butler Lampson↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
    • Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
45. Niklaus Wirth↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
46. Edward R. McCracken↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
47. Jean-Louis Gassée↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Of Modes and Men (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2020-02-21
    • Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2024-08-14
48. John Markoff↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Machines Already Took Our Jobs ↗computerhistory.org · 2021-02-17
49. Alvy Ray Smith↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
50. Jack Goldman↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) ↗worrydream.com · 2022-04-17
    • Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (2008) ↗www.moserware.com · 2019-07-15