Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
by David A. Mindell
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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"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.Tags
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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 show more 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. show less
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- Technology, Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
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- 004.09 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Computer science standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography
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- QA76.17 .M46 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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