When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy: The Digitalization of the United States Navy (Perspectives) - Hardcover

Boslaugh, David L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0769500242 ISBN 13: 9780769500249

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

This volume explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code breaking computers and their adaptation to solve critical fleet radar handling problems.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0769500242
• ISBN 13: 9780769500249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492