[SIGCIS-Members] Automation bibliography

[Ian S. King]

Another take on replacement - not for economic reasons, but in obsessive
obeisance to other values - is the classic, "With Folded Hands".

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu>
wrote:

> Another cultural suggestion to pair with the *Desk Set* is the May 1964
> episode of *The Twilight Zone*, "The Brain Center at Whipple's." One of
> those Rod Serlingesque accounts of an efficiency expert who completely
> automates a factory, laying off all the assembly line workers, until his
> job too is replaced with a robot. Not the most profound account, but
> reflective of period anxieties.
>
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, McMillan, William W <
> william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu> wrote:
>
>> Don't forget Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set (1957)!
>>
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>> I devote attention to the subject as it related to manufacturing in the
>> USA, with lots of bibliography, in The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed
>> the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
>> (Oxford U Press, 2004).
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org<mailto:
>> paul at mcjones.org>> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Burt Grad described the creation of GE’s first applications for the
>> UNIVAC I in this article:
>>
>> The First Commercial Computer Application at General Electric
>> By: Burton Grad, December 2006
>>
>> http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_First_Commercial_Computer_Application_at_General_Electric
>>
>> He said a large team was assigned the task of writing a payroll system
>> for the Washer and Dryer Department, while he was assigned the task of
>> writing a manufacturing control system for the Dishwasher and Disposer
>> Department. It took him about six months, and his programs "operational
>> long before the payroll system was completed.”
>>
>> I’m not sure exactly what manufacturing control referred to, but I
>> suspect it involved scheduling and tracking the movement of parts and
>> subassemblies, but not actually performing real-time control of any
>> machinery.
>>
>>
>> Paul McJones
>>
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP at si.edu<mailto:
>> CeruzziP at si.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> ... When GE installed one of the first commercial UNIVACs at their
>> Louisville, KY appliance plant, they were concerned with the topic of
>> automation eliminating jobs and its possible bad publicity. ...
>>
>> All that from the installation of a vacuum-tube computer with very
>> primitive, by modern standards, computing power. A further irony is that
>> the UNIVAC, as far as I could tell, did not have anything to do with
>> automating production on the factory floor.
>>
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