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Between human and machine

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An edition of Between Human and Machine (2002)

Between human and machine

feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics

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Mindell ponders the orgin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vannevar Bush's laboratory at MIT. In each culture, different technical problems, organizational imperatives, and working evironment existed, but they were all researching control, communications, and computing. When President Roosevelt synthesized the four engineering cultures into a representative government committee, they suffused engineering research with good principles and later made it possible for Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press
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English
Pages
439

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Electronic data processing, Computers, History, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Computers, history, Ordinateurs, Histoire, Datatransmissie, Controlesystemen

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Cover of: Between Human and Machine
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
September 10, 2004, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Cover of: Between Human and Machine
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
2003, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
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Between human and machine: feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics
2003, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Cover of: Between Human and Machine
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
August 29, 2002, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Hardcover in English
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QA76, QA76.17.M46 2002, QA76.17 .M46 2002, QA76.17 .M46 2002eb

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xiv, 439 p. :
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439

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OL22519456M
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0801868955
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2001004203
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47521252, 51493422
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Q28016330
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223446
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1499522

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