of ARPA, or IPTO.
             The computer machines were thought of mostly as arithmetic machines. The team at ARPA was determined to make more of the computers than just to do math. As they realized ever more that computers were capable of more than crunching number problems, ARPA went ahead and contracted four sites to help in the research of the ARPANET, a network of computers initiated, funded, and mainly controlled by ARPA. The four contracted sites were: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Stanford Research Institute (SRI); University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); and the University of Utah (UTAH) (Hauben, 101). Each of these sites were nodes in a
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