Programmers and Managers

Name: Programmers and Managers
Brand: Springer, Berlin
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The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States

Autor: P. Kraft

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Editura: Springer, Berlin

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Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship b...

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Autor

P. Kraft

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2012

Pagini

118

EAN

9780387902487

ISBN

0387902481

Enbook ID

01383498

Editura

Springer, Berlin

Greutate

220

Dimensiuni

155 x 235 x 7

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Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship between control and communication: that messages intended as commands do not necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more than a laboratory curiosity. Thirty years later, the same paradox is at the heart of a severe identity crisis which con fronts computer programmers. Are they primarily members of "management" acting as foremen, whose task it is to ensure that orders emanating from executive suites are faithfully trans lated into comprehensible messages? Or are they perhaps sim ply engineers preoccupied with the technical difficulties of relating "software" to "hardware" and vice versa? Are they aware, furthermore, of the degree to which their work whether as manager or engineer-routinizes the work of others and thereby helps shape the structure of social class relation ships? I doubt that many of us who lived through the first heady and frantic years of software development-at places like the RAND and System Development Corporations-ever took time to think about such questions. The science fiction-like setting of mysterious machines, blinking lights, and torrents of numbers served to awe outsiders who could only marvel at the complexity of it all. We were insiders who constituted a secret society into which only initiates were welcome. So today I marvel at the boundless audacity of a rank out sider in writing a book like Programmers and Managers.

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