From Whirlwind to MITRE
Subtitle: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer (History of Computing)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780262182010
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; History of engineering & technology; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Aerial Operations; Military Equipment; Technology; History - Military / War; Science/Mathematics; USA; History; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Science / History; Military Science; Military research; SAGE (Air defense system); United States
First sentence: In 1951 a strategic breakthrough was reported by the electrical engineers who had been in charge of a mock military operation carried out in the skies above Bedford, Massachusetts.