Where are we going, Phil Morse? Changing agendas and the rhetoric of obviousness in the transformation of computing at MIT, 1939-1957 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

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Peer-reviewed

Author:L. Owens

Summary: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

Article, 1996

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publication:IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 18, 199610, 34

ISSN:

1058-6180

DOI:10.1109/85.539914

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:5872072103

Subjects:

Analog computers

Computer architecture

Counting circuits

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