The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edwards, Paul N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1997, ©1996.
Edition:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Series:Inside technology.
Subjects:
Computers > History.
Military art and science > Data processing > History.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Computers
Military art and science > Data processing
Society > Effects of > Computers
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "We defend every place" : building the Cold War world
  • 2. Why build computers? : the military role in computer research
  • 3. Sage
  • 4. From operations research to the electronic battlefield
  • 5. Interlude : metaphor and the politics of subjectivity
  • 6. The machine in the middle : cybernetic psychology and World War II
  • 7. Noise, communication, and cognition
  • 8. Constructing artificial intelligence
  • 9. Computers and politics in Cold War II
  • 10. Minds, machines, and subjectivity in the closed world.

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