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Calculating a natural world :

026226689X

1282098519

1429477199

6612098511

9780262266895

9781282098510

9781429477192

9786612098512

0262012316

9780262012317

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Calculating a natural world :

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scientists, engineers, and computers during the rise of U.S. cold war research /

Atsushi Akera.

Cambridge, Mass. :

MIT Press,

©2007.

1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) :

illustrations.

Inside technology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-412) and index.

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.

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How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Calculating a natural world.

9780262012317

Computers-- United States-- History.

Electronic data processing-- United States-- History.

Computer-- Kalter Krieg-- USA.

Computer-- USA-- Geschichte.

COMPUTERS-- History.

Computers.

Datentechnik

Electronic data processing.

Kalter Krieg-- Computer-- USA.

Ost-West-Konflikt

Technische Innovation

United States.

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Akera, Atsushi.

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