[PDF.39bk] From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer (History of Computing)

From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer (History of Computing)

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 | #1265050 in Books |  2000-10-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x1.50 x6.20l,2.18 | File type: PDF | 547 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Retrospective of one of the earliest large-scale product development projects: SAGE|By Bas Vodde|"From Whirlwind to MITRE" is the historical accounts of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) project, which was one of the first
(perhaps first) large military computer and software development projects for building an aircraft defense system. The book is full of little| ||SAGE bears comparison wiht Manhattan Project, the Atlas and Polaris missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. As one of the grattechnological and managerial achievements of the Cold War, it has long deserved the history that Redmond and Smith have now pr

This book presents an organizational and social history of one of the foundational projects of the computer era: the development of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system, from its first test at Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1951, to the installation of the first unit of the New York Air Defense Sector of the SAGE system, in 1958. The idea for SAGE grew out of Project Whirlwind, a wartime computer development effort, when the U.S. Department of D...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer (History of Computing)   |  Kent C. Redmond, Thomas M. Smith. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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