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Words and Power = Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Words and Power/ by Bernadette Longo.
其他題名:	Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values /
作者:	Longo, Bernadette.
面頁冊數:	X, 143 p. 3 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Modern History. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70373-8
ISBN:	9783030703738

Words and Power = Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values /
Longo, Bernadette.

Words and PowerComputers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values /[electronic resource] :by Bernadette Longo. - 1st ed. 2021. - X, 143 p. 3 illus.online resource. - History of Computing,2190-684X. - History of Computing,.

1. Introduction -- 2. From Hot War to Cold Peace -- 3. Who Will Control Atomic Power -- 4. Sharing Information (or Not) for Computer Development -- 5. Defining Relationships among Computers, People, and Information -- 6. Technology Development Strains Standardization of Human Communication -- 7. Defining Terms and Establishing Priorities -- 8. Establishing the Field of Computer Science.

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a precursor to what would become computer science. As the Cold War heated up, U.S. federal agencies increasingly funded university researchers and labs to develop technologies, like the computer, that would ensure that the U.S. maintained economic prosperity and military dominance over the Soviet Union. At the same time, private corporations saw opportunities for partnering with university labs and military agencies to generate profits as they strengthened their business positions in civilian sectors. They needed a common vocabulary and principles of streamlined communication to underpin the technology development that would ensure national prosperity and military dominance. investigates how language standardization contributed to the professionalization of computer science as separate from mathematics, electrical engineering, and physics examines traditions of language standardization in earlier eras of rapid technology development around electricity and radio highlights the importance of the analogy of “the computer is like a human” to early explanations of computer design and logic traces design and development of electronic computers within political and economic contexts foregrounds the importance of human relationships in decisions about computer design This in-depth humanistic study argues for the importance of natural language in shaping what people come to think of as possible and impossible relationships between computers and humans. The work is a key reference in the history of technology and serves as a source textbook on the human-level history of computing. In addition, it addresses those with interests in sociolinguistic questions around technology studies, as well as technology development at the nexus of politics, business, and human relations. Bernadette Longo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee.

ISBN: 9783030703738

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-70373-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1104890
Modern History.

LC Class. No.: QA76.17

Dewey Class. No.: 004.09

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