Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics /
Mindell ponders the origin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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| Summary: | Mindell ponders the origin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vannevar Bush's laboratory at MIT. In each culture, different technical problems, organizational imperatives, and working environment existed, but they were all researching control, communications, and computing. When President Roosevelt synthesized the four engineering cultures into a representative government committee, they suffused engineering research with good principles and later made it possible for Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 439 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-416) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801868955 9780801868955 9780801880575 0801880572 |