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Book ID: CBB001181680

Systems, experts, and computers: The systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after (2000)

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

MIT Press
Publication date: 2000
Language: English

ISBN: 9780262082853

Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: vi + 513 pp.; ill.

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Description Contents: Automation's finest hour: Radar and system integration in World War II /; David A. Mindell --; The adoption of operations research in the United States during World War II /; Erik P. Rau --; From concurrency to phased planning : an episode in the history of systems management /; Stephen B. Johnson --; System reshapes the corporation: Joint ventures in the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, 1962-1972 /; Glenn Bugos --; Planning a technological nation: Systems thinking and the politics of national identity in postwar France /; Gabrielle Hecht --; A worm in the bud? Computers, systems, and the safety-case problem /; Donald MacKenzie --; Engineers or managers? The systems analysis of electronic data processing in the federal bureaucracy /; Atshushi Akera --; The world in a machine: Origins and impacts of early computerized global systems models /; Paul N. Edwards --; The medium is the message, or How context matters: The Rand Corporation builds an economics of innovation, 1946-1962 /; David A. Hounshell --; Out of the blue yonder: The transfer of systems thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965 /; David R. Jardini --; The limits of technology transfer: Civil systems at TRW, 1965-1975 /; Davis Dyer --; From operations research to futures studies: The establishment, diffusion, and transformation of the systems approach in Sweden, 1945-1980 /; Arne Kaijser; and; Joar Tiberg --; The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the TAP Project, and the RAINS model /; Harvey Brooks; and; Alan McDonald --; RAND, IIasa, and the conduct of systems analysis /; Roger E. Levien --; How a genetic code became an information system /; Lily E. Kay. (From WorldCat)

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Chapter Edwards, Paul N. (2000) The world in a machine: Origins and impacts of early computerized global systems models. In: Systems, experts, and computers: The systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after (p. 437). unapi

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