DocumentCode
829052
Title
BBN´s earliest days: founding a culture of engineering creativity
Author
Beranek, Leo L.
Volume
27
Issue
2
fYear
2005
Firstpage
6
Lastpage
14
Abstract
In establishing BBN, the founders deliberately created an environment in which engineering creativity could flourish. The author describes steps taken to assure such an environment and a number of events that moved the company into the fledgling field of computing.
Keywords
hearing; history; human factors; man-machine systems; psychology; speech intelligibility; Bolt Beranek and Newman Incorporated management; engineering creativity; engineering psychology; man-machine systems; Acoustical engineering; Acoustics; Buildings; Fasteners; Feedback; Floors; Frequency; Laboratories; Loudspeakers; Psychology; ARPANET; BBN; Baruch; Bolt; Licklider; man machine; psychoacoustics; time sharing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2005.20
Filename
1438232
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