Introduction |
Automation's Fines Hour: Radar and System Integration in World War II / 1: |
The Adoption of Operations Research in the United States During World War II / 2: |
From Concurrency to Phase Planning: An Episode in the History of Systems Management / 3: |
System Reshapes the Corporation: Joint Ventures in the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, 1962-1972 / 4: |
Planning a Technological Nation: Systems Thinking and the Politics of National Identity in Postwar France / 5: |
A Worm in the Bud? Computers, Systems, and the Safety-Case Problem / 6: |
Engineers of Managers? The Systems Analysis of Electronic Data Processing in the Federal Bureaucracy / 7: |
The World in a Machine: Origins and Impact of Early computerized Global Systems Models / 8: |
The Medium is the Message, or How Context Matters: the RAND Corporation Build an Economics of Innovation, 1946-1962 / 9: |
Out of the Blue yonder: The Transfer of Systems Thinking From the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965 / 10: |
The Limits of Technology Transfer: Civil Systems at TRW, 1965-1975 / 11: |
From Operations Research to Futures Studies: The Establishment, Diffusion, and Transformation of the Systems Approach in Sweden, 1945-1980 / 12: |
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the TAP Project, and the RAINS Model / 13: |
RAND, IIASA, and the Conduct of Systems Analysis / 14: |
How a Genetic Code Became an Information System / 15: |
Notes on Contributors |
Index |
Introduction |
Automation's Fines Hour: Radar and System Integration in World War II / 1: |
The Adoption of Operations Research in the United States During World War II / 2: |
From Concurrency to Phase Planning: An Episode in the History of Systems Management / 3: |
System Reshapes the Corporation: Joint Ventures in the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, 1962-1972 / 4: |
Planning a Technological Nation: Systems Thinking and the Politics of National Identity in Postwar France / 5: |