Bolt, Beranek and Newman

Founded by Bolt and Beranek, two MIT students and hired some of the leading scientists of the day to lead departments. E.g. J.C.R Licklider, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky.

• Tested the original prototype of the PDP-1 on behalf of DEC.
• Working for BBN, McCarthy developed one of the first time-sharing systems (the “BBN Time-Sharing System”) for the PDP-1 provided by DEC.
• Sponsored by DARPA to create the IMP computers which served as the main routers of the ARPANET.

Eventually subsumed into Raytheon and now known as “Raytheon BBN”.