"Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change By Donald MacKenzie The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/4064.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262278812 In Special Collection: CogNet Publication date: 1998 Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technological change to an argument…
Most aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security--now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over…
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Most aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security--now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over…