- Harry H. Goode
Harry H. Goode (
30 June 1909 –30 October 1960 ) was an Americancomputer engineer andsystems engineer andprofessor at theUniversity of Michigan . He is known as co-author of the book "Systems Engineering" from 1957, which is one of the earliest significant books directly related to systems engineering. [ [http://www.britannica.com/oscar/article-68225 Systems engineering] by Brittanica. 2007]Biography
Harry Goode was born in
New York City in 1909. He received hisB.A. inhistory fromNew York University in 1931, when the country was in the depths of the Depression. While studyingchemical engineering atCooper Union , Goode earned his living playing theclarinet andsaxophone in New Yorkjazz band s. [Isaac L. Auerbach, "Harry. H. Goode, June 30, 1909-October 30, 1960", p.257. ] He received his second bachelor's degree in 1940. During the war he attendedColumbia University and received a master's degree inmathematics in 1945.In 1941 Goode started working as a
statistician for the New York City Department of Health. From 1946 to 1949 Goode worked the U.S. Navy in Sands Point, Long Island, where he become head of the Special Projects Branch. Here he contributed to flight control simulation training, aircraft instrumentation, antisubmarine warfare, weapons systems design, and computer research and initiated computerbased simulation projects.In the 1950s Goode became professor at the
University of Michigan . Until his death in 1960 he was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC). He was the principal architect of what was to become AFIPS (American Federation of Information Processing Societies). Had he lived, Goode undoubtedly would have become the first president of AFIPS, for he was the prime mover in organizing the three American constituent societies that were members of NJCC into one federation. [ Article [http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/1986/03/a3toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MAHC.1986.10051 Harry H. Goode, June 30, 1909-October 30, 1960,: Abstract] , IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, retrieved Sept 2007.]Work
Harry Goode worked on the research frontiers of
Management Science ,Operations Research andSystems engineering in connection with organisms as systems, the reactions of groups, models of human preference, the experimental exploration of human observation, detection, and decision making, and the analysis and synthesis of speech. Harry H. Goode, "Greenhouses of Science for Management", in: "Management Science", Vol. 4, No. 4 (Jul., 1958), pp. 365-381.]Research on Service Records
In 1944-45 at the
New York City Department of Health Harry Goode worked with otherphysicians ,nurses , andstatisticians researched the keeping of records of daily performance in the schoolhealth service . Their aim was for administrators to looks for ways in which to switch his staff from less to more productive activities. Saving time in record keeping is one way of making time for other activities, but if few records are-kept they must be chosen carefully and with an eye to their utility. Too frequently facts and figures are accumulated with little attention paid to their utility. [ 1945, Abraham H. Kantrow, Leona Baumgartner, Harry H. Goode, " [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1625692&blobtype=pdf Service Records and Their Administrative Uses : Experience from a School Health Service"] *in: "Am J Public Health Nations Health". 1945 October; 35(10): 1063–1069.]Management science
Back in the 1950 on University of Michigan Goode worked on the foundation of
Management science concerning the structure and integrity of methods in Management science. He was convinced that by then Management Science,Operations Research andSystems Engineering were only defined by their overlap with other fields rather than by any problem central problem of their own. He considered it desirable to seek out and transplant developments in other sciences which might conceivably make a use of contributions to the overall structure of the field.To Goode,
Management Science had to have a science foundation upon which to build a structure to servemanagement . Until then, the sciences making the greatest contribution have beenmathematical and physical in nature. But theory, experimental design, and measurement are rapidly revolutionizing our knowledge of the human being so that thepsychological andbiological sciences may be expected to make a greater and greater contribution to the management sciences. These areas according to Goode were not useful for immediate application at the user's level in the management sciences, these were greenhouses of science for management from which applicable science may be expected to emanate.Operation Research
In 1954 Googe attended an
Operations Research (OR) meeting by a group of educators, which devoted half of the meeting time to the question "What is OR?". He questioned the need to devote time to self-identification. In view of this uncertainty, he thought is was remarkable that the group of educators, concerned with the hard core of engineering education, should devote time to surveying a field whose practitioners keep nervously reassuring themselves of its existence. Goode believe that the effort is worth undertaking because the OR phenomenon is part of a larger effect which touches all ofengineering ; because this effect must modify, perhaps profoundly, all engineering education; and because the causes yielding this effect are continuing ones which will lead repeatedly to more, and similar, developments in the future. He indicated that OR is part of a larger effect. To deal with the latter, at the risk of overlapping in the automation and automatic controls area and in the computer area he inserted "Engineering" in the place of "Analysis" in the title "Survey of Operations Research and Systems Analysis." [ Harry H. Goode, "Survey of Operations Research and Systems Engineering", Paper presented at Conference of Engineering Deans on Science and Technology, Purdue University, September 1957.]System engineering
In 1957 Goode co-authored the book "System Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-scale Systems". This was one of the first authoritative texts in the field. This book addresses the sets of tools, classification of parts, organized approach, and teams of workers needed to design a system. The book is primarily directed at automatic control systems (transportation, communications, material handling, data processing, and military systems).
Goode and Machol defined
systems engineering . "The concept from the engineering standpoint is the evolution of the engineering scientist, i.e., the scientific generalist who maintains a broad outlook. The method is that of the team approach. On large-scale-system problems, teams of scientists and engineers, generalists as well as specialists, exert their joint efforts to find a solution and physically realize it...The technique has been variously called the systems approach or the team development method." [cite book | title = System Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-scale Systems | last=Goode | first=Harry H. | coauthors=Robert E. Machol | publisher=McGraw-Hill| year = 1957, p. 8. LCCN|56|0|11714.]Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The
IEEE Computer Society yearly awarded a Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution. [ Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE Computer society. See [http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewAwards.action "here"] in this list, or [http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewPastRecipients.action?id=17 "here"] .]Scientists awarded, a selection:
* 1964,Howard Aiken
* 1965,Konrad Zuse andGeorge Stibitz
* 1966,John Mauchly andJ. Presper Eckert
* 1968,Maurice Vincent Wilkes
* 1975,Kenneth E. Iverson
* 1979,Herman Goldstine
* 1981,C. A. R. Hoare
* 1992,Edward S. Davidson
* 1995,Michael J. Flynn
* 2005,John Hopcroft
* 2006,Alan Jay Smith Publications
Goode has written several books and articles. Books:
* 1944, "Mathematical Analysis of Ordinary and Deviated Pursuit Curves", with Leonard Gillman, Special Devices Section, Training Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, 264 pp. 1944.
* 1957, "Systems Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-Scale Systems", withRobert Engel Machol , McGraw-Hill, 551 pp.Articles, a selection:
* 1945, " [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1625692&blobtype=pdf Service Records and Their Administrative Uses"] , with Abraham H. Kantrow, Leona Baumgartner, in: "Am J Public Health Nations Health". 1945 October; 35(10): 1063–1069.
* 1956, "The Use of a Digital Computer to Model a Signalized Intersection," with C.H. Pollmar and J.B. Wright, in: "Proceedings of Highway Research Board", vol. 35, 1956, pp. 548 - 557.
* 1957, "Survey of Operations Research and Systems Engineering", Paper presented at Conference of Engineering Deans on Science and Technology, Purdue University, September 1957.
* 1958, "Greenhouses of Science for Management", in: "Management Science", Vol. 4, No. 4 (Jul., 1958), pp. 365-381.
* 1958, "Simulation: Simulation and display of four inter-related vehicular traffic intersections", with C. True Wendell, Paper presented at the 13th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM '58.About Harry H. Goode:
* Isaac L. Auerbach, "Harry H. Goode, June 30, 1909-October 30, 1960," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 08, no. 3, pp. 257-260, Jul-Sept, 1986.
*Robert E. Machol , "Harry H. Goode, System Engineer", in: "Science ", Volume 133, Issue 3456, pp. 864-866, 03/1961.References
External links
* [http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/about/awards&file=HGoode_recipients.xml&xsl=generic.xsl& Harry H. Goode Memorial Award] , IEEE Computer Society.
* [http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/books/mgcontrol.html The McGraw-Hill Series in Control Systems Engineering] overview. by Kent H Lundberg, January 2004.
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