Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research
Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research
440 pages | Publisher: The MIT Press | September 30, 2008 | English | ISBN-10: 0262512033 | PDF | 4MB
440 pages | Publisher: The MIT Press | September 30, 2008 | English | ISBN-10: 0262512033 | PDF | 4MB
During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced rapidly within a complex institutional context. In Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and government and military interests that produced a burst of scientific discovery and technological innovation in 1940s and 1950s America. This was the era of big machines—the computers that made the reputations of IBM and of many academic laboratories—and Akera uses the computer as a historical window on the emerging infrastructure of American scientific and engineering research. The military-industrial complex is often spoken of as a coherent and unified power, but Akera argues that it was the tensions as much as the convergences among military, business, and academic forces that fueled scientific and technological advances.
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