Title :
Where are we going, Phil Morse? Changing agendas and the rhetoric of obviousness in the transformation of computing at MIT, 1939-1957
Author_Institution :
Dept. of History, Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper discusses the failure of the attempt to establish a computational center at MIT in the 1930s and the effect it had on the subsequent shift from analog to digital computing during the 1950s
Keywords :
analogue computers; computer science; history; MIT; computational center; transformation of computing; Analog computers; Computer architecture; Counting circuits; Drives; History; Image analysis; Military computing; Physics computing; Rhetoric; Servomotors;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
