Harry H. Goode (June 30, 1909 – October 30, 1960) was an American

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and

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and professor at the

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. 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.

Biography

Harry H. Goode (née Goodstein) was born in New York City in 1909. He received his

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in history from

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in 1931, when the country was in the depths of the Depression. While studying

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Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

, Goode earned his living playing the

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and saxophone in New York jazz bands. He received his second bachelor's degree in 1940. During the war he attended

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and received a master's degree in mathematics in 1945. In 1941 Goode started working as a statistician for the New York City Department of Health. From 1946 to 1949 Goode worked for the U.S. Navy in Sands Point, Long Island, where he became 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

. 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.

Work

Harry Goode worked on the research frontiers of

Management Science Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

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and

Systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering util ...

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.

Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

The

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yearly awards 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.

Publications

Goode wrote several books and articles. Books: * 1944 ''Mathematical Analysis of Ordinary and Deviated Pursuit Curves'', with

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, 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'', with

Robert Engel Machol Robert Engel Machol (October 16, 1917 in New York, USA – November 12, 1998 in Maryland, USA) was an American systems engineer and professor of systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University. Machol wrote the ...

, McGraw-Hill, 551 pp. Articles, a selection: * 1945
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. * 195
"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 Isaac L. Auerbach (October 9, 1921 – December 24, 1992) was an early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies, holder of 15 patents, founding president of the International Federation for Information Processing (1960–1965), a member ...

, "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 Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

'', Volume 133, Issue 3456, pp. 864–866, 03/1961.

References

External links

Harry H. Goode Memorial AwardIEEE Computer Society

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