Article ID: CBB450364367

Simulation and “Seduction” at the Policy Interface (2017)

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Taking the environmental policy simulations of the 1970s as a starting point, this article looks at the history of interactivity in computer simulation. It argues that the move toward interactive interfaces for computer simulations in this period was motivated as much by the anxieties of model-builders as it was by the new technological affordances offered by time-sharing. By looking at the early history of interactive simulations, the article shows that scholarly representations of simulations as innately “seductive” and “captivating” overlook how these properties were deliberately engineered into software for historically-specific reasons.

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Authors & Contributors
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Guy C. Fedorkow
Fleischmann, Kenneth R.
Tinn, Honghong
Vogel, William F.
Kneuper, Ralf
Concepts
History of Computing
Computer Simulation
Models and modeling in science
Software
Computational methods
Climate and climatology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Taiwan
Institutions
Control Data Corporation
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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