Calculating a natural world : scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research /

Show other versions (1)

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Akera, Atsushi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Inside technology.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > United States > History.
Computers > United States > History.
Ordinateurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
COMPUTERS > History.
Computers
Electronic data processing
Datentechnik
Ost-West-Konflikt
Technische Innovation
Kalter Krieg > Computer > USA.
Computer > Kalter Krieg > USA.
Computer > USA > Geschichte.
United States
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An ecology of knowledge: technical and institutional developments in computing, 1900-1945
  • Biography and the circulation of knowledge: John Mauchly and the origins of electronic computing
  • From ecology to network: John von Neumann and postwar negotiations over computer-development research
  • Knowledge and organization: redefining computer-development research at the national bureau of standards
  • Research and rhetoric: Jay Forrester and federal sponsorship of academic research
  • Institutions and border crossings: Cuthbert Hurd and his applied science field men
  • Voluntarism and occupational identity: the IBM users' group, share
  • Research and education: the academic computing centers at MIT and the University of Michigan
  • Discipline and service: research on computer time sharing at MIT and the University of Michigan.

Similar Items