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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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" Zusammenfassung 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David A Mindell, David A. Mindell, David A. (Massachusetts Institute of Tech Mindell, David A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mindell
• Con la collaborazione di: Merritt Roe Smith (Editore)
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.2004
• EAN: 9780801880575
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8057-5
• Pagine: 456
• Dimensioni: 178 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; USA, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, Automatic control engineering