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100 1 _aLongo, Bernadette,
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245 1 0 _aWords and Power
_bComputers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values
_cby Bernadette Longo.
250 _aFirst edition 2021
264 1 _aCham
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_c2021
300 _a1 recurso en línea (X, 143 páginas)
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490 0 _aHistory of Computing
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490 0 _aComputer Science (SpringerNature-11645)
490 0 _aComputer Science (R0) (SpringerNature-43710)
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 3 _aWhen 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.
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