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Author : Hilton L. Root
Release : 2020-03-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Networking History by : Hilton L. Root
Download or read book Networking History written by Hilton L. Root. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Root shows how the tools of network analysis can be used to understand great transitions in global economic history.
Author : Benjamin Peters
Release : 2016-03-25
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Not to Network a Nation by : Benjamin Peters
Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters. This book was released on 2016-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.
Author : Carl A. Sunshine
Release : 2013-06-29
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 097/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Computer Network Architectures and Protocols by : Carl A. Sunshine
Download or read book Computer Network Architectures and Protocols written by Carl A. Sunshine. This book was released on 2013-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the bricks and mortar from which are built those edifices that will permeate the emerging information society of the future-computer networks. For many years such computer networks have played an indirect role in our daily lives as the hidden servants of banks, airlines, and stores. Now they are becoming more visible as they enter our offices and homes and directly become part of our work, entertainment, and daily living. The study of how computer networks function is a combined study of communication theory and computer science, two disciplines appearing to have very little in common. The modern communication scientist wishing to work in this area soon finds that solving the traditional problems of transmission, modulation, noise immunity, and error bounds in getting the signal from one point to another is just the beginning of the challenge. The communication must be in the right form to be routed properly, to be handled without congestion, and to be understood at various points in the network. As for the computer scientist, he finds that his discipline has also changed. The fraction of computers that belong to networks is increasing all the time. And for a typical single computer, the fraction of its execution load, storage occupancy, and system management problems that are in volved with being part of a network is also growing.
Author : Howard Davies
Release : 2010-04-26
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis A History of International Research Networking by : Howard Davies
Download or read book A History of International Research Networking written by Howard Davies. This book was released on 2010-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book written and edited by the people who developed the Internet, this book deals with the history of creating universal protocols and a global data transfer network. The result is THE authoritative source on the topic, providing a vast amount of insider knowledge unavailable elsewhere. Despite the huge number of contributors, the text is uniform in style and level, and of interest to every scientist and a must-have for all network developers as well as agencies dealing with the Net.
Author : Pamela Walker Laird
Release : 2006-01-30
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pull by : Pamela Walker Laird
Download or read book Pull written by Pamela Walker Laird. This book was released on 2006-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.
