Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano 20 April 1989. Instituto Charles Babbage University of Minnesota. Fano discusses his move to computer science from information theory and his interaction with the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Topics include: computing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the work of J.C.R. Licklider at the Information Processing Techniques Office of ARPA; time-sharing and computer networking research; Project MAC; computer science education; CTSS development; System Development Corporation (SDC); the development of ARPANET; and a comparison of ARPA, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research computer science funding.