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	Vannevar Bush
		Bush's innovative idea for automating human memory was obviously important in the development digital age, but even more important was his influence on the institution of science in America.
		Bush was born on March 11, 1890, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
		Bush also changed the way basic scientific research was done in the U.S. He proved that technology was key to winning a war and this created a new respect for scientists.
	www.ibiblio.org /pioneers/bush.html (2063 words)

	Vannevar Bush
		Vannevar Bush was born on March 11, 1890, in Everett, Massachusetts.
		Bush brought together the U.S. Military and universities with a level of research funding not previously deployed, providing the universities with large, new revenue streams for establishment of laboratories, acquisition of equipment, and the conduct of pure and applied research.
		Bush, Vannevar; Science The Endless Frontier; A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; United States Government Printing Office; July, 1945.
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ii_bush.htm (624 words)

	Who Was Vannevar Bush?
		Vannevar Bush received 18 honorary degrees from American universities; special recognition or awards from 3 American presidents; served as chairman or director on the boards of numerous private and governmental science and technology-related organizations; and helped found the National Science Foundation.
		Vannevar Bush was elected President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., in 1938, one of the greatest scientific establishments in the world at the time.
		Vannevar Bush is credited by many as the best engineer of the 20th century, and the greatest champion of science since Einstein.
	www.wisegeek.com /who-was-vannevar-bush.htm (554 words)

	Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
		Bush's ‘continuous integraph’, later called the Differential Analyser, was still a significant development in the progress towards an analogue computer, influencing development of analogue machines around the world.
		Bush himself went on to invent the Rapid Selector, a microfilm storage and information retrieval device that he expanded - in theory, anyway - with his plans for the ‘Memex’ machine, a futuristic device that foreshadowed the modern computer and hypertext linking.
		Vannevar Bush's first public exposition of his vision for the future, 'As We May Think', was published by the Atlantic Monthly in 1945.
	www.kerryr.net /pioneers/bush.htm (523 words)

	Vannevar Bush
		Bush brought together the U.S. Military and universities with a level of research funding not previously deployed, providing the universities with large, new revenue streams for establishment of laboratories, acquisition of equipment, and the conduct of pure and applied research.
		In the private sector, Vannevar Bush was a cofounder of Raytheon, one of the United State's largest defense contractors.
		Bush, Vannevar; Science The Endless Frontier; A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; United States Government Printing Office; July, 1945.
	livinginternet.com /i/ii_bush.htm (624 words)

	"Bush Symposium - ACM Interactions Article"
		This paper gives a thematic view of the Vannevar Bush Symposium held at MIT on October 12-13, 1995 to honor the 50th anniversary of Bush's seminal paper, 'As We May Think'.
		The event was in fact an exhibition of Bush's legacy, a self-referential, interweaving (intertwingling, Ted Nelson would say) of all the themes - social, technological, and psychological - from Bush's paper.
		Bush's vision was not just about hypertext, or data management, or information retrieval, let alone about microfilm or calculating machines; rather, it was about extending the power of human beings by giving them radically new ways of working together.
	www.cs.brown.edu /memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html (742 words)

	Vannevar Bush and the Atomic Bomb
		Bush was not one of the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, nor was he a nuclear physicist.
		Bush was "much disturbed" to learn at his Sept. 22nd meeting with FDR that the President had discussed post-war nuclear relations with Churchill four days earlier without first consulting his advisors.
		Bush and Conant also recommended that the first use of an atomic bomb "might be over enemy territory, or in our own country, with subsequent notice to Japan that the materials would be used against the Japanese mainland unless surrender was forthcoming." (Ibid.).
	www.doug-long.com /bush.htm (1785 words)

	Vannevar Bush Biography and Summary
		Vannevar Bush's most important contribution to engineering was the differential analyzer, a complex but elegant mechanism capable of solving the intricate and lengthy differential equations that have become increasingly indispensable to modern engineerin...
		Vannevar Bush was born March 11, 1890, in Everett, Massachusetts, son of Universalist minister Richard Perry Bush and Emma Linwood Paine Bush.
		Vannevar Bush(March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex —seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web....
	www.bookrags.com /Vannevar_Bush (405 words)

	Big Thinkers - Vannevar Bush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An electrical engineer, Vannevar Bush is best remembered for his 1945 landmark essay, "As We May Think", in the Atlantic Monthly, in which he envisioned hypertext as used by the internet.
		Bush was appointed chairman of the National Defense Research Committee in the year 1940.
		Bush taught at the University and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge.
	www.kurzweilai.net /bios/bio0127.html (111 words)

	As We Are Thinking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vannevar Bush was no exception to this instinctive thinking process, and in his article As We May Think, he shows the world what his amazing new ideas are.
		Bush displays his great vision for future advances in technology through his descriptions of devices that were built decades after his article was published.
		Bush also brings forth the concept of "hypertext" and how linear information should be transfomed into chunks of information that can all be linked together so that any chunk can be easily accessed.
	www.rpi.edu /dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html (330 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Induction \| 2004 Inductees
		Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Tufts University before completing his Ph.D. in engineering at MIT in 1916.
		From 1938 to 1955, Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
		Bush may be best remembered, however, for his prescient, influential 1945 essay "As We May Think," in which he elaborated a vision that prefigured the development of hypertext and other elements of the World Wide Web.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/1_3_0_induction_bush.asp (247 words)

	Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
		Bush was a distinguished scientist and a scholar.
		Bush goes on to describe the sharing of trails between people and the creation of a “new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of common record.
		Bush was as concerned with people authoring content as well as managing associations around existing content, and the fluid nature of the Wiki, the sharing of data and the sharing of the responsibility for the data trails, is a direct descendant of his ideas.
	www.boxesandarrows.com /archives/foreseeing_the_future_the_legacy_of_vannevar_bush.php (1522 words)

	Virtual Travelog \| Vannevar Bush and The Limits of Prescience
		Today Vannevar Bush (rhymes with achiever) is often remembered for his July 1945 Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think in which he describes a hypothetical machine called a Memex.
		Ultimately Bush's prescience was limited by two factors: Failure to anticipate the emergence of fundamentally new technologies, and failure to predict the exponential improvements in many areas that such inventions would support.
		Bush's biggest failings were in predicting implementation details and his most accurate predictions concerned the interaction of people and technology.
	www.virtualtravelog.net /entries/2004/02/vannevar_bush_and_the_limits_of_prescience.html (1803 words)

	Vannevar Bush
		Vannevar — which rhymes with "receiver" — Bush was born March 11, 1894, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of a Universalist minister.
		Bush developed a system that worked in testing, but the Navy was unable to deploy it successfully in the field.
		In 1940, Bush proposed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that an organization be created to bring together the principal participants in research of military value from business, academia, and government.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1842.html (883 words)

	Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
		Vannevar Bush rose to prominence during World War II as chief scientific advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and director of the government's Office of Scientific Research and Development, where he supervised the research that led to the creation of the atomic bomb and other military technologies.
		In 1945 the Atlantic Monthly invited Bush to contribute an article on this theme, and the result was the landmark essay, As We May Think.
		He used this high profile forum to propose a solution to what he considered the paramount challenge of the day: how information would be gathered, stored, and accessed in an increasingly information-saturated world.
	www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/timeline/Bush.html (205 words)

	Vannevar Bush graduates, 1913 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), E1913, G1913, life member of the Board of Trustees, noted benefactor, and recipient of the Ballou Medal, was nationally recognized as an outstanding scholar, engineer, and scientist who developed an early version of the computer and oversaw scientific research in the United States during World War II.
		Bush continued his association with Tufts as an instructor in mathematics, assistant professor in Electrical Engineering, and professor of Premedical Physics until 1917.
		Bush joined with two associates, including his former Tufts roommate, Laurence Marshall, to found the American Appliance Company, which later became Raytheon Manufacturing Company and continued to evolve into the Metals and Controls Corporation, which manufactured nuclear fuel.
	www.tufts.edu /home/timeline/html/1913-p-vannevar.html (173 words)

	5.11: electrosphere
		Bush also labored in a haze of smoke, and not just the one emanating from the pipe that was his constant companion.
		Bush's plans led directly to the two crown jewels of this federally funded innovation system: the National Science Foundation, which funds university professors, and the Advanced Research Project Agency, the Pentagon's chief avenue for basic research.
		Bush's fans are less concerned with his failures than they are impressed by his attempt to humanize the brute force of computing - to place these machines in the service of personal and social goals.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.11/es_bush_pr.html (3639 words)

	Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex
		Vannevar Bush's description in 1945 of an imaginary information machine, the "Memex", is constantly viewed and cited in relation to subsequent developments in computing, information retrieval, and hypertext.
		Bush's selector was indeed rapid because it took advantage of two new developments: Improved photoelectric cell technology; and the stroboscopic lamp pioneered by his colleague Harold E. Edgerton.
		Bush, as a member of the committee, could be expected to have read the report and, therefore, to know of Gould's prior work.
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /~buckland/goldbush.html (6642 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Vannevar Bush
		Vannevar Bush was born on 11 March 1890 in Everett, Massachusetts.
		Bush combined the work of the US military with research from universities - including MIT, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley - to speed up improvements in weapons technology.
		After the war Bush worked in the private sector for a few years, then oversaw the creation of the National Science Foundation, which was established in 1950.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_bush-vannevar.htm (319 words)

	Berners-Lee: Talk at Bush Symposium: Notes
		It was part of symposium at MIT arranged by Andy Van Dam in honor of the 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's visionary article "As We May Think" in the Atlantic monthly in 1945.
		Bush presented the problem from the point of view of a single researcher, and he provided a solution for a single researcher.
		Bush's vision is of a decentralized academic society, in which no central figure or library is essential to the process.
	www.w3.org /Talks/9510_Bush/Talk.html (3128 words)

	Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex
		Vannevar Bush's description in 1945 of an imaginary information machine, the "Memex", is constantly viewed and cited in relation to subsequent developments in computing, information retrieval, and hypertext.
		Bush's selector was indeed rapid because it took advantage of two new developments: Improved photoelectric cell technology; and the stroboscopic lamp pioneered by his colleague Harold E. Edgerton.
		Bush, as a member of the committee, could be expected to have read the report and, therefore, to know of Gould's prior work.
	www.ischool.berkeley.edu /~buckland/goldbush.html (6642 words)

	Feature
		Vannevar Bush is a great name for playing six degrees of separation.
		Bush's best years - he was born in 1890 - came before professors were millionaires and venture capitalists were presidents' pals.
		Bush was also among the first to see the importance of venture capital and the way risk-taking inventors, drawing on top-flight universities, could spawn whole new industries - and, in the process, destroy the inefficient corporate oligarchies that ruled America from the turn of the century until the 1980s.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.11/es_bush.html (811 words)

	As We May Think (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vannevar Bush was president of this institution from 1939-1955.
		A celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision, an examination of what has been accomplished, and what remains to be done.
		Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages.
	www.press.umich.edu /jep/works/vbush (305 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Vannevar Bush, the inventor credited with the principles underlying modern hypertext research, was born on March 11, 1890 in Everett, Massachusetts.
		Bush proposed the notion of blocks of text joined by links and introduced the terms links, linkages, trails and Web through his descriptions of a new type of textuality.
		From 1957 to 1959, Bush served as Chairman of the MIT Corporation, and from 1959 to 1971 he was Honorary Chairman of the MIT Corporation.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/bush.html (935 words)

	Bush, Vannevar - Encyclopedia of Earth
		Although Bush died before the Internet became widely popular, and before the creation of the World Wide Web (created by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, see Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John), he played a pivotal role in their ultimate development.
		Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex" that was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations.
		Bush also invented several types of machines including the profile tracer, the justifying typewriter, and the differential analyzer, which was used in World War II to calculate ballistics tables.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Bush,_Vannevar (359 words)

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