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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akera, Atsushi, author.

Series:

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--United States--History.

Electronic data processing.

Computers--United States--History.

Computers.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 An Ecology of Knowledge: Technical and Institutional Developments in Computing, 1900-1945 25

2 Biography and the Circulation of Knowledge: John Mauchly and the Origins of Electronic Computing 67

3 From Ecology to Network: John von Neumann and Postwar Negotiations over Computer-Development Research 107

4 Knowledge and Organization: Redefining Computer-Development Research at the National Bureau of Standards 151

5 Research and Rhetoric: Jay Forrester and Federal Sponsorship of Academic Research 181

6 Institutions and Border Crossings: Cuthbert Hurd and His Applied Science Field Men 223

7 Voluntarism and Occupational Identity: The IBM Users' Group, Share 249

8 Research and Education: The Academic Computing Centers at MIT and the University of Michigan 277

9 Discipline and Service: Research on Computer Time Sharing at MIT and the University of Michigan 313

Series List 413.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262266895

026226689X

9781429477192

1429477199

1282098519

9781282098510

OCLC:

145464088

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.