Research: Operations
Among other matters, "Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture" looks at "Technology as Systems, Controls, and Information, and addresses the large-scale complexity that defined engineering in America after the Second World War. Hughes focuses less on the ideas of the system-builders themselves. He charts the rise of the military-industrial-university complex and presents the origins of operations research and theories of feedback and control.
Read review -AmSci, Nov-Dec 2004
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Flawed drawings caused spacecraft crash - Nature, Oct 18, 2004
I sing the body electric! NTT researchers use body as medium - EET/CommsDesign, Oct 15, 2004
A lighter approach to computer control - New Scientist, Oct 4, 2004
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