When computers went to sea

The digitization of the United States navy

David L. Boslaugh

492 pages, parution le 14/11/2003

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Résumé

When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of codebreaking computers and its adaptation to solve critical fleet radar data handling problems. This is the only book written on the US Navy's initial application of shipboard digital computers to naval warfare.

Considered one of the most successful projects ever undertaken by the US Navy, the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) was the first US Navy shipboard system to use digital computers. Numerous studies have attempted to pinpoint the reasons for the project's inordinate success in the face of seemingly impossible technical challenges and stiff resistance from some Navy officers. The project's success precipitated a digital revolution in naval warfare systems.

Automated military systems users and developers, real-time process control systems designers, automated system project managers, and digital technology history students will find this account of a United States military organization's initial foray into computerization interesting and thought provoking.

Radar - New Eyes for the Fleet
A Lingering Problem
The Codebreaking Computers - A Digital Solution
Conception of a New System
Building a New System
No Damned Computer Is Going To Tell Me What To Do
In the Air, on Land, and Sea
New Horizons for Tactical Computers
Twilight of the Analogs
A: Joint Electronics Equipment Designation System
B: Table of Acronyms and Abbreviations
C: Univac NTDS Organization, December 1, 1959
Bibliography
Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	IEEE Press
Auteur(s)	David L. Boslaugh
Parution	14/11/2003
Nb. de pages	492
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	875g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471472209
ISBN13	978-0-4714-7220-9