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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Agatha C Hughes; Thomas Parke Hughes |
| ISBN: | 0262082853 9780262082853 |
| OCLC Number: | 43318051 |
| Description: | vi, 513 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Automation's finest hour : radar and system integration in World War II / David A. Mindell -- The adoption of operations research in the United States during World War II / Erik P. Rau -- From concurrency to phased planning : an episode in the history of systems management / Stephen B. Johnson -- System reshapes the corporation : joint ventures in the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, 1962-1972 / Glenn Bugos -- Planning a technological nation : systems thinking and the politics of national identity in postwar France / Gabrielle Hecht -- A worm in the bud? computers, systems, and the safety-case problem / Donald MacKenzie -- engineers or managers? the systems analysis of electronic data processing in the federal bureaucracy / Atshushi Akera -- The world in a machine : origins and impacts of early computerized global systems models / Paul N. Edwards -- The medium is the message, or How context matters : the Rand Corporation builds an economics of innovation, 1946-1962 / David A. Hounshell -- Out of the blue yonder : the transfer of systems thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965 / David R. Jardini -- The limits of technology transfer : ;civil systems at TRW, 1965-1975 / Davis Dyer -- From operations research to futures studies : the establishment, diffusion, and transformation of the systems approach in Sweden, 1945-1980 / Arne Kaijser and Joar Tiberg -- The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the TAP Project, and the RAINS model / Harvey Brooks and Alan McDonald -- RAND, IIasa, and the conduct of systems analysis / Roger E. Levien -- How a genetic code became an information system / Lily E. Kay. |
| Series Title: | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Responsibility: | edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes. |
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