WHEN COMPUTERS WENT TO SEA: THE DIGITIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY DOWNLOAD FREE BOOK David L. Boslaugh | 492 pages | 16 Apr 2003 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 9780471472209 | English | New York, United States When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy / Edition 1 This Print-on-Demand format will be When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy specifically to fill your order. Overview When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers and their adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handling problem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - that went to sea in Perspectives Series. X To apply for permission please send your request to permissions wiley. Any Condition Any Condition. Read an Excerpt Click to read or download. With NTDS and wireless data links, ships could share the information gathered by their sensors with other ships in a task force. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Author Information David L. Updating no longer required any inputs, unless the predicted motion began to differ at which point additional button pushes could be used to update it. To give the task force enough reaction time to deal with these threats, "pickets" were posted at a distance from the force to allow their radars to pick up the targets while still on the approach. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Buy It Now. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Analog systems were difficult to keep operational and subject to errors when maintenance was less than perfect. Automated military systems users and developers, real-time process control systems designers, automated system project managers, and digital technology history students will find this account of a United States military organization's initial foray into computerization interesting and thought provoking. Peter David Paperback Books. Retrieved July 13, Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Dave Boslaugh details the innovations developed by the NTDS projectmanagers including: project management techniques, modular digitalhardware for ship systems, top-down modular computer programmingtechniques, innovative computer program documentation, and othernovel real-time computer system concepts. Considered one of the most successful projects ever undertaken by the US Navy, the Naval Tactical Data System NTDS was the subject of numerous studies attempting to pinpoint the reason for the systems inordinate success in the face of seemingly impossible technical challenges and stiff resistance from some in the military. They also built their own version of the Royal Navy's concept as the "Electronic Data System", and 20 sets were eventually produced by Motorola. Author: Boslaugh, David L. Namespaces Article Talk. This information could then be relayed back to the ships and to the weapons operators. If this is a republication request please include details of the new work in which the Wiley content will appear. The circuitry then adjusted the rate of predicted movement of the blip and displayed a pointer that moved over time. The system's success precipitated a digital revolution innaval warfare systems. Stock photo. This is the only book written on the UnitedStates Navy's initial application of shipboard digital computers tonaval warfare. Please read our Privacy Policy. The system's success precipitated a digital revolution in naval warfare systems. Show More. Dave Boslaugh details the innovations developed by the NTDS project managers including: project management techniques, modular digital hardware for ship systems, top-down modular computer programming techniques, When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy computer program documentation, and other novel real-time computer system concepts. Pages: Product dimensions: 7. Navy Program Guide. The Early History of Data Networks. About the Author David L. Information about targets would be forwarded to the CIC by the operators of the radar and sonar systems, where crewmen would use this information to update a shared map. This is the only book written on the United States Navy's initial application of shipboard digital computers to naval warfare. Unfortunately their design used tubes, and the resulting machine was so large it took up almost all of the free space on the Bangor -class minesweeper it was installed on. Warships have compartments known as Combat When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy Centersor CICs, that collect, sort and then communicate all of the battlefield information known to that ship. Logic circuits used discrete transistors and other elements soldered to a printed circuit board with connectors running along one side. Microsoft Rising IEEE Computer Society Buy It Now. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Logic circuits used discrete transistors and other elements soldered When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy a printed circuit board with connectors running along one side. No ratings or reviews yet No ratings or reviews yet. Warships have compartments known as Combat Information Centersor CICs, that collect, sort and then communicate all of the battlefield information known to that ship. Stock photo. Data from one computer simply needed to be copied directly to another, there was no need to code and decode analog signals representing those values. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. About this product Product Information When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the UnitedStates Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers andtheir adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handlingproblem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - thatwent to sea in There were two major problems with this system. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Allow additional time for delivery Permissions Request permission to reuse content from this title. Boslaugh Views Read Edit View history. Information about targets would be forwarded to the CIC by the operators of the radar and sonar systems, where crewmen would use this information to update a shared map. Preface xxiii Introduction 1 1 Radar? Updating no longer required any inputs, unless the predicted motion began to differ at which point additional button pushes could be used to update it. Join a Wiley Engineering Mailing List. Development of computers in the mids led both by the Navy's long interest in code-breaking computers, the introduction of newer types of transistors, and the widespread introduction of core memoryreached a point where a Navy version of Air Force's SAGE air defense network was a practical possibility. By the early s the digital computer appeared to offer a solution, not only by greatly increasing reliability through the removal of any moving parts, but also by directly working with the digital data that made up the plots. Author: Boslaugh, David L. Show More Show Less. Best Selling in Nonfiction See all. Most NTDS computers were water-cooledthough some later lighter-weight models were air-cooled. Read an Excerpt Click to read or download. As the data was now being collected almost entirely from electronic devices and displays, a system that picked up this data directly from those displays would be ideal. Unfortunately their design used tubes, When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy the resulting machine was so large it took up almost all of the free space on the Bangor -class minesweeper it was installed on. However, the system was huge and did not include inter-ship transmission, so was only used on a small number of aircraft carriers. Devised to be used in conjunction with the Type radarthe first such system was developed by the Royal Navy in the immediate post-war era using analog systems that tracked the rate of motion of "blips" on radar screens. This item doesn't belong on this page. The Navy kept a watchful eye When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy these developments and others under Project Cosmos. The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. See all 4 brand new listings. To give the task force enough reaction time to deal with these threats, "pickets" were posted at a distance from the force to allow their radars to pick up the targets while still on the approach. Naval Tactical Data System Perspectives Ser. Some experiments with video cameras pointed at the radar displays were tried, but were subject to transmission When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy when the ships pitched on the swells and the high-bandwidth antennas no longer pointed at each other. Microsoft Rising Efforts to build a transistorized version of the DATAR did not receive funding and the project ended. 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