Programming men and machines. Changing organisation in the artillery computations at Aberdeen Proving Ground (1916-1946)
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1 septembre 2015
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History of computing History of mathematics Ballistics Differential Analyzer ENIAC Bell machinesSujets proches
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Maarten Bullynck, « Programming men and machines. Changing organisation in the artillery computations at Aberdeen Proving Ground (1916-1946) », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.0ec8fg
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A detailed account of organizing ballistic computation at Aberdeen Proving Ground, from World War I to World War II, is given. In particular, the interactions between mathematical aspects and practical computational aspects, viz. manual calculation, analogue and digital machinery, are studied.