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The closed world: computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America
Edwards, Paul N.
Year: c1996.
Publisher:  MIT Press. 
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Frontmatter
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. "We Defend Every Place": Building the Cold War World
2. Why Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research
3. SAGE
4. From Operations Research to the Electronic Battlefield
5. Interlude: Metaphor and the Politics of Subjectivity
6. The Machine in the Middle: Cybernetic Psychology and World War II
7 Noise, Communication, and Cognition
8. Constructing Artificial Intelligence
9. Computers and Politics in Cold War II
10 Minds, Machines, and Subjectivity in the Closed World
Epilogue: Cyborgs in the World Wide Web
Notes
Index
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Title: The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America Paul N. Edwards.
Author: Edwards, Paul N
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Source Version: The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America Paul N. Edwards. 
Edwards, Paul N
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1996.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01135
Subject Headings: • Military art and science -- Data processing -- History
• Computers -- History
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