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| Titolo: | Systems, experts and computers : the systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after / edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : The MIT press, c2000. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 513 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Serie: | Dibner institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Contiene: | Indice: Introduction / Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha C. Hughes. 1. Automation's finest hour: radar and system integration in World War II / David A. Mindell 2. The adoption of operations research in the United States during World War II / Erik P. Rau 3. From concurrency to phased planning: an episode in the history of systems management / Stephen B. Johnson 4. System reshapes the corporation: joint ventures in the bay area rapid transit system (1962-1972) / Glenn Bugos 5. Planning a technological nation: systems thinking and the politics of national identity in postwar France / Gabrielle Hecht 6. A worm in the bud? Computers, systems and the safety-case problem / Donald MacKenzie 7. Engineers or managers? The systems analysis of electronic data processing in the federal bureaucracy / Atsushi Akera 8. The world in a machine: origins and impacts of early computerized global systems models / Paul N. Edwards 9. The medium is the message, or How context matters: the RAND corporation builds an economics of innovation (1946-1962) / David A. Hounshell 10. Out of the blue yonder: the transfer of systems thinking from the Pentagon to the great society (1961-1965) / David R. Jardini 11. The limits of technology transfer: civil systems at TRW (1965-1975) / Davis Dyer 12. From operations research to futures studies: the establishment, diffusion and transformation of the systems approach in Sweden (1945-1980) / Arne Kaijser and Joar Tiberg 13. The international institute for applied systems analysis, the TAP project and the RAINS model / Harvey Brooks and Alan McDonald 14. RAND, IIASA and the conduct of systems analysis / Roger E. Levien 15. How a genetic code became an information system / Lily E. Kay. Notes on contributors. Index |
| ISBN: | 0262082853 |
| Altri autori: | Hughes, Agatha C.
Hughes, Thomas Parke, 1923-2014. Mindell, David A. Rau, Erik P. Johnson, Stephen B. Bugos, Glenn E. Hecht, Gabrielle. MacKenzie, Donald. Akera, Atsushi. Edwards, Paul N. Hounshell, David A. Jardini, David. Dyer, Davis. Kaijser, Arne. Tiberg, Joar. Brooks, Harvey. McDonald, Alan. Levien, Roger Eli. Kay, Lily E. |
| Discipline: | Ingegneria elettrotecnica e delle comunicazioni--Studi. Cibernetica e Informatica--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 12613 |
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| Collocazione: | LS 19189 |
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