Where Are We Going, Phil Morse? Changing Agendas and the Rhetoric of Obviousness in the Transformation of Computing at MIT, 1939-1957

  • Authors:
  • Larry Owens

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This paper discusses the failure of the attempt to establish a computational center at MIT in the 1930s and the effect it had on the subsequent shift from analog to digital computing during the 1950s