Resumen de Can it happen again? Planning support, Lee�s Requiem and the rise of the smart cities movement
Can it happen again? Planning support, Lee�s Requiem and the rise of the smart cities movement Just over seventy years ago the first digital computers were born as part of the war effort. The Colossus series of computers at Bletchley Park were assembled to help Alan Turing crack the German U-boat codes and in typical British fashion were then disassembled when the war ended with no more code needing decryption or otherwise. However this was no false dawn.
Digital computers painfully struggled out of the scientific laboratory into contexts where large-scale transactions processing and scientific computation were dominant. Sixty years ago the first applications of digital computers were made to our own field�to transportation planning in the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) (Plummer, 2003). F
