Timothy Moy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Moy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Moy |
| SIGNATURE | MOY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sandia National Laboratories |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917-1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917–1945 Timothy Moy (bio) Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917–1945. By David E. Johnson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+288. $21. Since the end of the cold war, historians of technology and military innovation have looked to two historical periods to help inform our understanding of the present and future: the interwar pe…
Structure Ascendant
Though it clearly bears the marks of the early 1950s, Ideas and Weapons remains an important and useful classic in the literature on military innovation. I.B. Holley's analysis of the role of institutional structure in shaping the adoption of the aerial weapon during World War I continues to frame current understanding of the complex interaction between military doctrine, military institutions, and technological change. This Revisit examines the …
Computational social dynamic modeling of group recruitment
The Seldon software toolkit combines concepts from agent-based modeling and social science to create a computationally social dynamic model for group recruitment. The underlying recruitment model is based on a unique three-level hybrid agent-based architecture that contains simple agents (level one), abstract agents (level two), and cognitive agents (level three). This uniqueness of this architecture begins with abstract agents that permit the mo…
War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920-1940
What can we expect? What should we do? After September 11, many observers have suggested that current national defense specialists face a beast that Western society has never confronted. The novelty of it all seems nearly paralyzing. The two histories addressed in this review not only demonstrate the kind of perspective historians can bring to the national defense dialogue but also suggest that the current beast is hardly a novelty and does not h…
The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should It Have Been Attempted
This collection of essays and documents on the oft-requested but never-conducted bombing of Auschwitz originated in a 1993 symposium hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Participants included prominent military and diplomatic historians with particular expertise in the history of strategic bombing and the Holocaust. In addition to expanded versions of the conference…
War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920-1940
During the interwar years, from 1920 to 1940, leaders from the US Army Air Corps and Marine Corps recreated their agencies based on visions of new military technologies. In this survey, Timothy Moy examines these recreations and explores how factors such as bureaucratic pressure, institutional culture, and America's technological enthusiasm shaped these leaders' choices. The very existence of the Army Air Corps was based on a new technology, the …
History after the geographic turn review of atomic spaces: Living on the Manhattan project
Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II
Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II by Jerry E. Strahan
858 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE nized, and thoroughly researched, this book should be useful to any scholar interested in the world history of medicine and disease. W. Wayne Farris Dr. Farrjs is currently professor of history at the University ofTennessee at Knox ville. He has written extensively on disease in premodernJapan, especially in Papula tion, Disease, and Land in EarlyJapan, 645-900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,…
Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade by Keith Krause
210 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE dark side of MIT’s competitive environment. In a parallel essay Eve Odiorne Sullivan (Laboratory for Nuclear Science) suggested that when taken to extremes the pursuit of excellence becomes yet another form of addictive behavior that MIT is called on to treat. A final set of essays argued for the social utility of MIT “inventions” ranging from transformational generative grammar to system dy namics to tech…
Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade
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Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade by Keith Krause
210 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE dark side of MIT’s competitive environment. In a parallel essay Eve Odiorne Sullivan (Laboratory for Nuclear Science) suggested that when taken to extremes the pursuit of excellence becomes yet another form of addictive behavior that MIT is called on to treat. A final set of essays argued for the social utility of MIT “inventions” ranging from transformational generative grammar to system dy namics to tech…
Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade
Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II
Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II by Jerry E. Strahan
858 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE nized, and thoroughly researched, this book should be useful to any scholar interested in the world history of medicine and disease. W. Wayne Farris Dr. Farrjs is currently professor of history at the University ofTennessee at Knox ville. He has written extensively on disease in premodernJapan, especially in Papula tion, Disease, and Land in EarlyJapan, 645-900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,…
History after the geographic turn review of atomic spaces: Living on the Manhattan project
War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920-1940
During the interwar years, from 1920 to 1940, leaders from the US Army Air Corps and Marine Corps recreated their agencies based on visions of new military technologies. In this survey, Timothy Moy examines these recreations and explores how factors such as bureaucratic pressure, institutional culture, and America's technological enthusiasm shaped these leaders' choices. The very existence of the Army Air Corps was based on a new technology, the …
War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920-1940
What can we expect? What should we do? After September 11, many observers have suggested that current national defense specialists face a beast that Western society has never confronted. The novelty of it all seems nearly paralyzing. The two histories addressed in this review not only demonstrate the kind of perspective historians can bring to the national defense dialogue but also suggest that the current beast is hardly a novelty and does not h…
The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should It Have Been Attempted
This collection of essays and documents on the oft-requested but never-conducted bombing of Auschwitz originated in a 1993 symposium hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Participants included prominent military and diplomatic historians with particular expertise in the history of strategic bombing and the Holocaust. In addition to expanded versions of the conference…
Computational social dynamic modeling of group recruitment
The Seldon software toolkit combines concepts from agent-based modeling and social science to create a computationally social dynamic model for group recruitment. The underlying recruitment model is based on a unique three-level hybrid agent-based architecture that contains simple agents (level one), abstract agents (level two), and cognitive agents (level three). This uniqueness of this architecture begins with abstract agents that permit the mo…
Structure Ascendant
Though it clearly bears the marks of the early 1950s, Ideas and Weapons remains an important and useful classic in the literature on military innovation. I.B. Holley's analysis of the role of institutional structure in shaping the adoption of the aerial weapon during World War I continues to frame current understanding of the complex interaction between military doctrine, military institutions, and technological change. This Revisit examines the …
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917-1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917–1945 Timothy Moy (bio) Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation and the U.S. Army, 1917–1945. By David E. Johnson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+288. $21. Since the end of the cold war, historians of technology and military innovation have looked to two historical periods to help inform our understanding of the present and future: the interwar pe…
History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Engineering (5 works) · World War II (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Military History and Strategy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)