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Technology for Modelling - Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the Development of Analogue Computing (Hardcover, 2010)
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Technology for Modelling - Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the Development of Analogue Computing (Hardcover, 2010)
Series: History of Computing
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Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue
computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to
digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications
existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is
a spectrum of understanding around what constitutes analogue
computing. To understand the relationship between analogue and
digital computing, and what this means for users today, the history
must consider how the technology is used. Technology for Modelling
investigates the technologies, the concepts, and the applications
of analogue computing. The text asserts that analogue computing
must be thought of as not just a computing technology, but also as
a modelling technology, demonstrating how the history of analogue
computing can be understood in terms of the parallel themes of
calculation and modelling. The book also includes a number of
detailed case studies of the technology's use and application.
Topics and features: discusses the meaning of analogue computing
and its significance in history, and describes the main differences
between analogue and digital computing; provides a chronology of
analogue computing, based upon the two major strands of calculation
and modeling; examines the wider relationship between computing and
modelling, and discusses how the theme of modelling fits within the
history of analogue computing; describes how the history of
analogue computing evolved through a number of stages of use;
presents illustrative case studies on analogue modelling in
academic research, oil reservoir modelling, aeronautical design,
and meteorology. General readers and researchers in the field of
history of computing - as well as history of science more generally
- will find this book a fascinating insight into the historical use
and evolution of technology. The volume provides a long-needed
historical framework and context for these core computing
technologies. Dr. Charles Care is a senior software engineer at BT
and an Associate Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of
the University of Warwick, UK.
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