| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 513 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Automation's finest hour : radar and system integration in World War II / David A. Mindell -- 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 -- World in a machine : origins and impacts of early computerized global systems models / Paul N. Edwards -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in France and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explain engineering thought and managerial practice during the last sixty years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Systems engineering.
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Systems engineering. |
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Expert systems (Computer science)
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Expert systems (Computer science) |
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Management information systems.
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Management information systems. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Online resources.
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Congressen (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Agatha C.
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Hughes, Thomas Parke.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Systems, experts, and computers. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000 0262082853 (DLC) 00021959 (OCoLC)43318051 |
| ISBN |
9780262275873 electronic book |
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0262275872 electronic book |
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0585436770 electronic book |
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9780585436777 electronic book |
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9780262082853 |
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0262082853 |
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0262082853 |
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9780262082853 |
| Standard No. |
9780262082853 |
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