Calculating a natural world
Subtitle: scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research
By: Atsushi Akera.
Series: Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780262012317
Subjects: Electronic data processing -- United States -- History; Computers -- United States -- History
Description: Describes the interplay of academic, commercial, and government and military interests that produced a burst of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-412) and index.