Systems, experts, and computers : the systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after /
Hughes, Agatha C.
Hughes, Thomas Parke.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
©2000.
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in France and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explain engineering thought and managerial practice during the last sixty years.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in France and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explain engineering thought and managerial practice during the last sixty years.
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Machine generated contents note: AUTOMATION'S FINEST HOUR: RADAR AND SYSTEM -- INTEGRATION IN WORLD WAR II 27 -- David A. Mindell THE ADOPTION OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN THE UNITED -- STATES DURING WORLD WAR II 57 -- Erik P. Rau FROM CONCURRENCY TO PHASED PLANNING: AN EPISODE -- IN THE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT 93 -- Stephen B. Johnson SYSTEM RESHAPES THE CORPORATION: JOINT VENTURES IN -- THE BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM, 1962-1972 113 -- Glenn Bugos PLANNING A TECHNOLOGICAL NATION: SYSTEMS THINKING -- AND THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POSTWAR -- FRANCE 133 -- Gabrielle Hecht A WORM IN THE BUD? COMPUTERS, SYSTEMS, AND THE -- SAFETY-CASE PROBLEM 161 -- Donald MacKenzie ENGINEERS OR MANAGERS? THE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF -- ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING IN THE FEDERAL -- BUREAUCRACY 191 -- Atsushi Akera -- THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, OR HOW CONTEXT -- MATTERS: THE RAND CORPORATION BUILDS AN -- ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION, 1946-1962 255 -- David A. Hounshell OUT OF THE BLUE YONDER: THE TRANSFER OF SYSTEMS -- THINKING FROM THE PENTAGON TO THE GREAT SOCIETY, -- 1961-1965 311 -- David R. Jardini THE LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: CIVIL SYSTEMS AT -- TRW, 1965-1975 359 -- Davis Dyer FROM OPERATIONS RESEARCH TO FUTURES STUDIES: THE -- ESTABLISHMENT, DIFFUSION, AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE -- SYSTEMS APPROACH IN SWEDEN, 1945-1980 385 -- Arne Kaijser and Joar Tiberg THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS -- ANALYSIS, THE TAP PROJECT, AND THE RAINS -- MODEL 413 -- Harvey Brooks and Alan McDonald RAND, IIASA, AND THE CONDUCT OF SYSTEMS -- ANALYSIS 433 -- Roger E. Levien How A GENETIC CODE BECAME AN INFORMATION -- SYSTEM 463 -- Lily E. Kay NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 493 INDEX 497.
Systems engineering.
Expert systems (Computer science)
Management information systems.
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology