Edmund Berkeley and the social responsibility of computer professionals /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] : [San Rafael, California] :
Association for Computing Machinery ; Morgan & Claypool,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | ACM books ;
#6. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a struggle of ideas
- With the perspective of time
- The myth of autonomy
- 1. Modern methods of thinking, 1927-1941
- A modern method of thinking
- Becoming an insurance actuary and a husband
- Applications of symbolic logic in the insurance industry
- 2. Navy assignment at the Harvard Computation Lab, 1944-1946
- Joining Aiken's crew
- Conflict inside the Harvard Lab
- 3. Establishing open communication channels for technology development, 1945-1948
- Public-private partnerships
- Prudential explores electronic computers
- Technology development, communication, and public policy
- Opening a professional association for computer people
- Future catastrophe hazards
- 4. Robots and giant brains, 1942-1961
- Problems of language and intelligence
- Speaking of machines as human
- Bringing giant brains to the people
- Computing on a small scale
- A preview of the robot age
- 5. National security investigations, 1948-1955
- Fighting the Communist threat at home
- The Rosenberg case
- Defense against unnamed sources
- Questions of constitutional rights
- The Oppenheimer case
- 6. Engineering peace, 1948-1970
- Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
- The dawn of the computer age
- Engineering weapons
- Total war and works of peace
- Nuclear disarmament and Communist infiltration
- Sharing information before the Internet
- 7. A denunciation of killing devices, 1952-1972
- Using computers for peaceful purposes
- The conscience of the computer industry
- 8. The remaking of man, 1973-1987
- Taking stock of a life
- Bibliography
- Author's biography.