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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 11: Chronology of Selected Literature, Reports, Policy Instruments, and Significant Events Affecting Federal Scientific and Technical Information (STI) in the United States
Author: Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 13: Source Selection and Information Use by US Aerospace Engineers and Scientists: Results of a Telephone Survey
Author: NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 14: Engineering Work and Information Use in Aerospace: Results of a Telephone Survey
Author: NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 15: Technical Uncertainty and Project Complexity as Correlates of Information Use by US Industry-affiliated Aerospace Engineers and Scientists: Results of an Exploratory Investigation
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Paper 16: A Comparison of the Technical Communications Practices of Russian and US Aerospace Engineers and Scientists
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
Book Description
America's Information Wars
Author: Colin B. BurkePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538112469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s created at Wild Bill Donovan’s predecessors of the Central Intelligence Agency, to the rise of a huge international science information industry, and to the 1990’s Open Access-Open Culture reformers’ reactions to the commercialization of science information. Necessarily, there is much about the people, cultures, and politics that shaped the methods, systems, machines and protests. The reason for that is simple: The histories of technologies and methods are human histories. Science information’s many lives were shaped by idiosyncrasies and chance, as well as by social, economic, political and technical ‘forces’. The varied motives, personalities and beliefs of unique and extraordinary people fashioned science information’s past. The important players ranged from a gentleman scholar who led the Office of Strategic Services’ information work, to an ill-fated Hollywood movie director, to life-mavericks like the science information legend Eugene Garfield, to international financial wheeler-dealers such as Robert Maxwell, and to youthful ultra-liberal ideologically-driven Silicon Valley internet millionaires. However, although there are no determining laws of information history, social, political, legal and economic factors were important. After 1940, science information’s tools and policies, as well as America’s universities, were being molded by the nation’s wealth, its role in international affairs, the stand-off between left and right politics, and by the intensifying conflict between Soviet and Western interests.
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