[SIGCIS-Members] Automation bibliography

[Bernardo Batiz-Lazo]

You may also want to look at

Booth, A. E. (2007). The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the U.K. and U.S.A. since 1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave.


Best
Bernardo
Bangor University (Wales)

On 15 Jun 2015, at 23:19, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> Another take on replacement - not for economic reasons, but in obsessive obeisance to other values - is the classic, "With Folded Hands".  
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> 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).
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org<mailto:paul at mcjones.org>> wrote:
> Paul,
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> Burt Grad described the creation of GE’s first applications for the UNIVAC I in this article:
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> 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
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP at si.edu<mailto:CeruzziP at si.edu>> wrote:
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> ... 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. ...
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> 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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