Book ID: CBB000110250

Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After (2000)

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Hughes, Agatha (Editor)
Hughes, Thomas Parke (Editor)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: 513 pp., illus., tables, index
Language: English

Description Includes contributions by the editors and David A Mindell, Erik P. Rau, Stephen B. Johnson, Glenn Bugos, Gabrielle Hecht, Donald MacKenzie, Atusha Akera.


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Review Grier, David Alan (2002) Review of "Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 353). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Milan J. Stankovic
Wixforth, Harald
Franziska Eggimann
Wolverton, Mark
McRae, Kenneth D
Landsberger, Henry A
Concepts
Management techniques
Computers and computing
World War II
Mathematics
Technology
Business and commerce
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Bletchley Park
Yugoslavia
Switzerland
Institutions
Fiat (firm)
Georg Fischer AG
Borgward-Gruppe
Western Electric
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