Standards, networks, and critique

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Russell, Andrew L ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCITT; data networking; Gerald Raunig; history of computing; IBM; International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee; Michel Foucault; standards development; telecommunication standards

Indexed keywords

CCITT; DATA NETWORKING; GERALD RAUNIG; HISTORY OF COMPUTING; IBM; INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE; MICHEL FOUCAULT; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDS;

HISTORY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TELEGRAPH;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84867345318     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2012.46     Document Type: Article

References (11)

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3. Discourses of openness predate the computer networks of the 1970s, notably in the American Open Door policy at the turn of the 20th century and in organizational theories of "open systems" in the 1950s and 1960s. See A.L. Russell, An Open World: History, Ideology, and Network Standards, to be published in 2013.
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