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Calculating a natural world : scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research
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Calculating a natural world : scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research

Author: Atsushi Akera
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Inside technology
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Atsushi Akera
ISBN: 0262012316 9780262012317
OCLC Number: 68417002
Description: ix, 427 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: An ecology of knowledge: technical and institutional developments in computing, 1900-1945 -- Biography and the circulation of knowledge: John Mauchly and the origins of electronic computing -- From ecology to network: John von Neumann and postwar negotiations over computer-development research -- Knowledge and organization: redefining computer-development research at the national bureau of standards -- Research and rhetoric: Jay Forrester and federal sponsorship of academic research -- Institutions and border crossings: Cuthbert Hurd and his applied science field men -- Voluntarism and occupational identity: the IBM users' group, share -- Research and education: the academic computing centers at MIT and the University of Michigan -- Discipline and service: research on computer time sharing at MIT and the University of Michigan.
Series Title: Inside technology
Responsibility: Atsushi Akera.
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