A Scholar and a Simulation Ahead of Their Time: Memories of Harold Guetzkow

Kenneth Janda
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Kenneth Janda: Northwestern University, USA, k-janda@northwestern.edu

Simulation & Gaming, 2011, vol. 42, issue 3, 301-307

Abstract: Research on international relations at Northwestern University in the 1960s and 1970s revolved around Harold Gueztkow’s pioneering work on the simulation of international processes. As a beginning faculty member, I benefited from the insights and excitement of that special time and place. As a participant in one of his events, I experienced the challenges he faced in carrying off the complex operation of man-machine simulation, when the machines consisted of typewriters, thermofax machines, and a mainframe computers with punch-card input. As a beneficiary of the revolution introduced by networked microcomputers, I realized that Guetzkow’s successes would have been multiplied many times over if the proper technology had been available to him.

Keywords: Harold Guetzkow; INS; computers; political science; Cleo Cherryholmes; Michael Shapiro; voting; simulated international relations; SIP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878110393867

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