Internet alley : high technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005
Explains how a concentration of military contractors carrying out weapons analysis, systems engineering, operations research, and telecommunications combined with suburban growth patterns to drive the region's development. The dot-com bubble's burst was offset here, the author points out, by the government's growing national security-related need for information technology. He looks in detail at the nature of the work carried out by these government contractors and how it can be considered truly innovative in terms of both technology and management
紙書籍, English, ©2008
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2008