Between Human and Machine - Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics

"In contextualizing the theory of cybernetics, Mindell gives engineering back forgotten parts of its history, and shows how important historical circumstances are to technological change." -- "Networker"

About the author

David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author or editor of several books, including Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight and Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, the latter published by Johns Hopkins. The first edition of Iron Coffin, titled War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor, won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology in 2001.

Summary

As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics

Product details

• Authors: David A Mindell, David A. Mindell, David A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mindell
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2002
• EAN: 9780801868955
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6895-5
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 1111 g
• Illustrations: 36 Line drawings, black and white; 46 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries