Rescuing Prometheus
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 03/01/2000
Description:
The fascinating, compelling account of the four greatest projects of the postwar era and how they changed science engineering and management.
-- SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) Air Defense Project which fostered the first interactive digital computer design primarily for information processing.
-- ATLAS project which was responsible for the first ICBMs. Management of this project -- it involved close to 20,000 scientists, engineers and technical experts, labor and factory work from 22 industries -- entailed the genesis of a new mode of management: system engineering.
-- ARPANET: A project of the Defense Department Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which would result in the Internet. This project's collegial, non-hierarchical meritocratic management style would become emblematic of the computer industry.
-- Boston Central Artery Tunnel Project: This country's largest urban highway project that required the solution of enormous engineering and social engineering problems has become the model for managing social and environmental aspects -- inherent to technological projects.
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-- SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) Air Defense Project which fostered the first interactive digital computer design primarily for information processing.
-- ATLAS project which was responsible for the first ICBMs. Management of this project -- it involved close to 20,000 scientists, engineers and technical experts, labor and factory work from 22 industries -- entailed the genesis of a new mode of management: system engineering.
-- ARPANET: A project of the Defense Department Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which would result in the Internet. This project's collegial, non-hierarchical meritocratic management style would become emblematic of the computer industry.
-- Boston Central Artery Tunnel Project: This country's largest urban highway project that required the solution of enormous engineering and social engineering problems has become the model for managing social and environmental aspects -- inherent to technological projects.
These projects all represent the effective and powerful combination of government, private interests, and academics to create some of the most significant achievements of the postwar era.
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