Agar, JE;
(2016)
Putting the spooks back in? The UK secret state and the history of computing.
Information & Culture: a Journal of History
, 51
(1)
pp. 102-124.
10.1353/lac.2016.0005.
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Abstract
The post–World War II secret state (governmental bodies that handle national security, including signals intelligence, spying, counterintelligence, and some aspects of policing, as well as the central bureaucratic mechanisms of their control) is a lacuna in the history of UK computing. This article assesses the extent to which the UK secret state was a major user of computing technologies and examines the character of its computing tasks, as well as its relationships with industry and government, more broadly.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Putting the spooks back in? The UK secret state and the history of computing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/lac.2016.0005 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lac.2016.0005 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Information & Culture: A Journal of History following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through the University of Texas Press. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469610 |
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