Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262516047 ISBN 13: 9780262516044

Verlag: MIT Press, 2011

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This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.

Biografía del autor:

Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics and War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press). Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association. Atsushi Akera is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (2001), both published by the MIT Press. Harvey Brooks was the Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus in the Kennedy School of Government and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Emeritus in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0262516047
• ISBN 13: 9780262516044
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 520
• Herausgeber: Hughes Agatha C., Hughes Thomas P.