Calculating a natural world
Subtitle: scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. Cold War research
By: Atsushi Akera
Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Series: Inside technology; Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780262512039
Subjects: Electronic data processing; Computers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: An ecology of knowledge: technical and institutional developments in computing, 1900-1945; title: Biography and the circulation of knowledge: John Mauchly and the origins of electronic computing; title: From ecology to network: John von Neumann and postwar negotiations over computer-development research; title: Knowledge and organization: redefining computer-development research at the National Bureau of Standards; title: Research and rhetoric: Jay Forrester and federal sponsorship of academic research; title: Institutions and border crossings: Cuthbert Hurd and his applied science field men; title: Voluntarism and occupational identity: the IBM users' group, Share; title: Research and education: the academic computing centers at MIT and the University of Michigan; title: Discipline and service: research on computer time sharing at MIT and the University of Michigan.