Systems, Experts & Computers â The Systems Approach in Management & Engineering, World War II & After: The Systems Approach in Management and . in the History of Science and Technology)

Hughes, Agatha C

ISBN 10: 0262082853 / ISBN 13: 9780262082853

Edité par MIT Press, 2000

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• Titre: Systems, Experts & Computers â The Systems Approach in Management & Engineering, World War II & After: The Systems Approach in Management and . in the History of Science and Technology)
• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262082853
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262082853
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 993,4 grammes

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Synopsis

This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.

After World War II, a systems approach to solving complex problems and managing complex systems came into vogue among engineers, scientists, and managers, fostered in part by the diffusion of digital computing power. Enthusiasm for the approach peaked during the Johnson administration, when it was applied to everything from military command and control systems to poverty in American cities. Although its failure in the social sphere, coupled with increasing skepticism about the role of technology and "experts" in American society, led to a retrenchment, systems methods are still part of modern managerial practice.

This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis—and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in France and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explain engineering thought and managerial practice during the last sixty years.

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics and War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor.

Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press).

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Atsushi Akera is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (2001), both published by the MIT Press.

Harvey Brooks was the Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus in the Kennedy School of Government and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Emeritus in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.