| Edition |
1st MIT Press pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 440 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Inside technology
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Inside technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-428) and index. |
| Contents |
1. "We defend every place" : building the Cold War world -- 2. Why build computers? : the military role in computer research -- 3. Sage -- 4. From operations research to the electronic battlefield -- 5. Interlude : metaphor and the politics of subjectivity -- 6. Machine in the middle : cybernetic psychology and World War II -- 7. Noise, communication, and cognition -- 8. Constructing artificial intelligence -- 9. Computers and politics in Cold War II -- 10. Minds, machines, and subjectivity in the closed world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Computers -- History.
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Computers. |
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History. |
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Military art and science -- Data processing -- History.
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Military art and science -- Data processing. |
| Indexed Term |
Society Effects of Computers |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edwards, Paul N. Closed world. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1997, ©1996 026205051X (DLC) 95024674 (OCoLC)40671430 |
| ISBN |
0585002916 (electronic book) |
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9780585002910 (electronic book) |
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9780262050517 (alkaline paper) |
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026205051X (alkaline paper) |
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026205051X |
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0262550288 |
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9780262550284 |
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0262272164 |
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9780262272162 |
| Standard No. |
9780585002910 (electronic bk.) |
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