University of Michigan. Larry Roberts, appointed by Bob Taylor of the ARPA IPTO (Information Processing Techniques Office), presents a plan to connect several research centers using telephone lines. He proposes a centralized hub architecture and a decentralized web-based one. Roberts and Taylor will favor the decentralized one for military security reasons. Routing will be handled by standard minicomputers provided by ARPA. They are called IMPs (Interface Message Processors) and will later be called routers.
