Thinking algorithmically: From Cold War computer science to the socialist information culture

• Main Author: TATARCHENKO, Ksenia
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: algorithm; Cold War; computer science; A. Ershov; Information Age; D. Knuth; programming; Soviet education; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/131; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1130/viewcontent/TATARCHENKO_ThinkingAlgorithmically_2019_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Cold War competition shaped the process of computerization in both East and West during the second half of the twentieth century. This article combines insights from Science and Technology Studies, which brought the analysis of Cold War technopolitics beyond the context of the nation-state, with app...