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Ronald R. Kline
How did cybernetics and information theory arise, and how did they come to dominate fields as diverse as engineering, biology, and the social sciences?Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLOutstanding Academic Title, Choic
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Ronald R. Kline
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Technology and Culture. 64:223-225
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Ronald R. Kline
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History of the Human Sciences. 33:12-35
Rather than assume a unitary cybernetics, I ask how its disunity mattered to the history of the human sciences in the United States from about 1940 to 1980. I compare the work of four prominent social scientists – Herbert Simon, George Miller, Karl
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Ronald R. Kline
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The American Historical Review. 127:981-982
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Jennifer L. Lieberman, Ronald R. Kline
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Configurations. 25:1-27
The fin de siecle American fascination with electricity has been well documented. David E. Nye, Carolyn Marvin, and other historians have explored the hopes and fears of the new technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and they hav
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Ronald R. Kline
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Technology and Culture. 58:835-845
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Ronald R. Kline
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Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society ISBN: 9783030189549
The history of the modem demonstrates that digitization is a hybrid process, in which analog-digital techniques were (and still are) essential. As an indispensable “gateway technology,” the modem has integrated heterogeneous information infrastru
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18955-6_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18955-6_3
Autor:
Ronald R. Kline
Publikováno v:
History of Computing ISBN: 9783030021511
The chapter discusses why the venerable words analog and digital were appropriated by inventors of the numerical computer for different types of computers in the United States in the 1940s, what alternatives were proposed, how they became paired keyw
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02152-8_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02152-8_2
Autor:
Ronald R. Kline
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology ISBN: 9783319937786
This chapter recounts part of the history of mathematical modeling in the social sciences in the United States and England in the 1950s and 1960s. It contrasts the modeling practices of MIT engineer Jay Forrester, who developed the field of System Dy
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_12
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_12
Autor:
Ronald R. Kline
Publikováno v:
Technology and Culture. 60:921-922