• DocumentCode
    756562
  • Title

    Engineers, Programmers, and Black Boxes

  • Author

    Colwell, Bob

  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Behind most of the classes an engineer encounters as an undergraduate is one overriding paradigm: the black box. A black box takes one or more inputs, performs some function on them, and produces one output.
  • Keywords
    Calculus; Circuit analysis; Control theory; Military computing; Physics; Power engineering and energy; Probability; Programming profession; System analysis and design; Systems engineering and theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2005.93
  • Filename
    1413108