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[Julie Cohn]

Evan - 

Following on Deborah’s suggestion regarding business school cases, you might consider looking at other allied fields that were early adopters of computing technologies - the electric power industry, aviation, and industrial manufacturing come to mind. I don’t have any authors to suggest off the top of my head, but articles in the relevant trade journals might signal use of computing technologies that influenced the direction of development of those technologies. When I have a moment, I’ll glance through citations I have for Electrical World and forward anything of interest directly to you. Here’s one little example:

"The Computation of Transmission Systems." Editorial. Electrical World 37, no. 20 (May 18 1901): 776.

This article points toward integrating automatic control into the design of generators and transmission lines - a precursor to the analog, and later digital, computing and controlling technologies used on growing power networks across the US. Not sure if this is the type of thing you are looking for, but just in case ... 

-Julie

Julie Cohn, Ph.D.

Non-Resident Scholar, Center for Energy Studies
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, and
Research Historian, Center for Public History
University of Houston

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Author: The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grid




> On Mar 18, 2022, at 4:55 AM, herbert.bruderer at bluewin.ch wrote:
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> These proceedings in French of a large European conference are almost unknown:
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> Pérès, Joseph (ed.): Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine, Paris, 8–13 janvier 1951, Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, No. 37, Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris 1953, xix, 570 pages
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> see
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> 2017
> The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence? | blog at CACM | Communications of the ACM <https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/222486-the-birthplace-of-artificial-intelligence/fulltext>
> November 3, 2017
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> Herbert
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> I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.
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> Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
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> Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)
> Are there existing papers on this subject?
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