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Autore: | Akera Atsushi |
Titolo: | Calculating a natural world : scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research / / Atsushi Akera |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina: | 004/.0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Electronic data processing - United States - History |
Computers - United States - History | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-412) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 An Ecology of Knowledge: Technical and Institutional Developments in Computing, 1900-1945 -- 2 Biography and the Circulation of Knowledge: John Mauchly and the Origins of Electronic Computing -- 3 From Ecology to Network: John von Neumann and Postwar Negotiations over Computer-Development Research -- 4 Knowledge and Organization: Redefining Computer-Development Research at the National Bureau of Standards -- 5 Research and Rhetoric: Jay Forrester and Federal Sponsorship of Academic Research -- 6 Institutions and Border Crossings: Cuthbert Hurd and His Applied Science Field Men -- 7 Voluntarism and Occupational Identity: The IBM Users' Group, Share -- 8 Research and Education: The Academic Computing Centers at MIT and the University of Michigan -- 9 Discipline and Service: Research on Computer Time Sharing at MIT and the University of Michigan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- List of Books -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Calculating a natural world |
ISBN: | 1-282-09851-9 |
0-262-26689-X | |
9786612098512 | |
1-4294-7719-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812523703321 |
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