Talk:Tom Gilb

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Notable little book

Tom Gilb: Controlling the computer was very notable for me in previous century.

It - vividly - showed the need of primary responsibility of subject matter specialist and secondary of information and computer technologies. E.g., if computer went down, reseting it might be seen as minor hindrance, but when that computer manages a steel making furnace, nuclear or other termal power station, or real time air traffic control, person managing informatics (including it's financing and profit) should definitly be secondary to preventing catastrophic failure of the object infosubsystem (including humans) manages.

It also - thorougly - introduced Multi-Element Component Comparison Analysis (MECCA) method, extremely usefull for comparing and choosing alternatives also when several parameters can't be measured.

I think I got it at a workshop with sv:Bo Sundgren, who was then working for Statistcs Sweden, and on several missions within PHARE program to help improve methodologies for developing and maintaining statistical information systems in then Yugoslavia. The first visit of his team was to Ljubljana, Slovenia, when Slovene Franta Komel was general manager of Slovenian Statistical Institute of Slovenia there, the workshop where suppose I got this book was in Belgrade when Franta Komel took place there as general manager of then Federal Statistical Institute of Yugoslavia.

Several people borrowed my copy and someone of them didn't return it, but there was for a time a copy at Central Technical Library, but they don't seem to have it (suppose somebody thought it's contents obsolete).

Update:

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Studentlitteratur

Language ‏  : ‎ English

ISBN-10 ‏  : ‎ 9144107919

ISBN-13 ‏  : ‎ 978-9144107912

Update:

Originaly year published: 1974

List of several Gilb's published works at LibraryThing, I'll add it into the article to a section like Sources.  Done

Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 10:12, 8 June 2026 (UTC)