Autor: David A. Mindell

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This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.After World War II, a systems approach to solving complex problems and managing complex systems came into vogue among en …

How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight-the lunar landings of NASA’s Apollo program.As Apollo 11’s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automa …

The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell’s classic account of the ironclad w …

Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener’s 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, con …

Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-w …

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