Systems, Experts, and Computers
Subtitle: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Contributors: Agatha C. Hughes (Editor); Thomas P. Hughes (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780262082853
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of science; Management decision making; Systems analysis & design; Systems management; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Computer Systems; Science; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General; General; History; Science / History; Industrial Technology; Expert systems (Computer scien; Expert systems (Computer science); Management Information Systems; Systems Engineering
First sentence: Examining, as this volume does, "the spread of the systems approach," suggests that some coherent approach to systems emerged within engineering before it diffused into other disciplines such as social policy and urban planning.