Systems, experts, and computers : the systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after
Title:
Systems, experts, and computers : the systems approach in management and engineering, World War II and after
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Physical Description:
vi, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780262082853
9780262516044
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Physical Form Available:
Also available via the World Wide Web.
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.