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Notes Toward a Sociology of Supercomputing

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The tentativeness of my title is wholly deliberate. This paper is a report on work in progress. Though some features of the development of supercomputing already emerge clearly from the research, others take the form of tantalizing glimpses of possible patterns.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Donald MacKenzie

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    Todd R. La Porte

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MacKenzie, D. (1991). Notes Toward a Sociology of Supercomputing. In: La Porte, T.R. (eds) Social Responses to Large Technical Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3400-2_8

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