書目名稱 | Programmers and Managers |
副標題 | The Routinization of |
編輯 | Philip Kraft |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/760/759875/759875.mp4 |
叢書名稱 | Heidelberg Science Library |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | 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 |
出版日期 | Book 1977 |
關鍵詞 | Programmierer; Training; Vereinigte Staaten /Gesellschaft, Sozialwissenschaften; complexity; computer; co |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9420-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-0-387-90248-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-9420-4Series ISSN 0073-1595 |
issn_series | 0073-1595 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag, New York Inc. 1977 |