• DocumentCode
    1396716
  • Title

    Where are we going, Phil Morse? Changing agendas and the rhetoric of obviousness in the transformation of computing at MIT, 1939-1957

  • Author

    Owens, Larry

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of History, Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1996
  • Firstpage
    34
  • Lastpage
    41
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/85.539914
  • Filename
    539914
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1396716