The computer revolution in Canada : building national technological competence /

The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period. After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vardalas, John N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > Canada > History.
Computers > Canada > History.
Informatique > Canada > Histoire.
Ordinateurs > Canada > Histoire.
COMPUTERS > History.
Computers.
Electronic data processing.
Canada.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Canadian Military Enterprise and the University
  • 2. The Navy's Pursuit of Self-Reliance in Digital Electronics
  • 3. Complexity and the Military Imperative to Miniaturize
  • 4. Civilian Public Enterprise Encourages Domestic R & D in Digital Electronics
  • 5. The Effort to Create a Canadian Computer Industry
  • 6. The Sperry Gyroscope Company of Canada and Computer Numerical Control
  • 7. The Dilemma of "Buying" Mandated Subsidiaries: The Case of the Control Data Corporation.

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