URL:

http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/

Topic:

Vannevar Bush

Year:

1890-1974

Summary Composer:

Kara Detwiller Click here for searching strategies

Summary:

Vannevar Bush was a very important man in the history of Computer Science, very intelligent and ahead of his time. In 1945, while he was President Roosevelt's Science Advisor, he wrote a paper entitled "As We May Think". In this paper, he talked about a thing called "Memex", a machine able to store huge amounts of information as well as create links among the related information. Essentially, what he was envisioning was the Internet. Later, he wrote another paper about MEMEX II, in which he described how videos and sound could be incorporated as well. Vannevar Bush was also president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1939-1955 and there also a prestigious prize for research which is named after him.

Bibliography and Interesting Links:

Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin (1995) http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html

Arjan de Mes (1996) http://146.50.3.49/~mes/jargon/v/vannevar.html Click here to find out what "Vannevar" means in computer jargon!

Marc Berrnier http://www-home.calumet.yorku.ca/mbernier/www/cosc4361/bush.htm

Bill Bottorff (1996) http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wik/bushref.htm Click here for many links to Vannevar Bush pages!

Jesper Just http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~jjust/vbush.html

George P. Landow http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/ht/memex.html