| 书目名称 | Words and Power | | 副标题 | Computers, Language, | | 编辑 | Bernadette Longo | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Places the development of computer science as a profession within political and cultural contexts from the end of World War II through the 1960s.Considers contests for standardization of computer term | | 丛书名称 | History of Computing | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a precursor to what would become computer science..As the Cold War heated up, U.S. federal agencies increasingly funded university researchers and labs to develop technologies, like the computer, that would ensure that the U.S. maintained economic prosperity and military dominance over the Soviet Union. At the same time, private corporations saw opportunities for partnering with university labs and military agencies to generate profits as they strengthened their business positions in civilian sectors. They needed a common vocabulary and principles of streamlined communication to underpin the technology development that would ensure national prosperity and military dominance. .investigates how language standardization contributed to the professionalization of computer science as separate from mathematics, electrical engineering, and physics.examines traditions of language | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Computer glossary; Cold War computers; Edmund Berkeley; Flesch readability formula; Computer metaphors; R | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70373-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-70375-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-70373-8Series ISSN 2190-6831 Series E-ISSN 2190-684X | | issn_series | 2190-6831 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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