Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States

by Philip Kraft

Book Overview

Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship between control and communication: that messages intended as commands do not necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more than a laboratory curiosity. Thirty years later, the same paradox is at the heart of a severe identity crisis which con- fronts computer programmers. Are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387902481
• ISBN13: 9780387902487
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"