Programming men and machines. Changing organisation in the artillery computations at Aberdeen Proving Ground (1916-­1946)

Maarten Bullynck (1)

1 Centre de recherches historiques : histoire des pouvoirs, savoirs et sociétés

A detailed account of organizing ballistic computation at Aberdeen Proving Ground, from World War I to World War II, is given. In particular, the interactions between mathematical aspects and practical computational aspects, viz. manual calculation, analogue and digital machinery, are studied.

Mots clés: History of computing; History of mathematics; Ballistics; Differential Analyzer; ENIAC; Bell machines

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Maarten Bullynck. Programming men and machines. Changing organisation in the artillery computations at Aberdeen Proving Ground (1916-­1946). 2015. ⟨halshs-01541616⟩