Words and Power

Words and Power

Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values

Longo, Bernadette

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

07/2022

143

Mole

Inglês

9783030703752

15 a 20 dias

250

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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.
Computer glossary;Cold War computers;Edmund Berkeley;Flesch readability formula;Computer metaphors;RAND think tank;IBM computer history;Institute of Radio Engineers;Association for Computing Machinery;us politics