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	ACM: Special Interest Group Awards
		Awarded for an outstanding contribution to Computer Architecture made by an individual whose computer-related professional career (graduate school or full-time employment) began no earlier than 20 years prior to the time of nomination The recipient receives a $2,500 prize and is invited to ISCA to receive the award.
		Awarded annually to an individual who is nationally or internationally recognized for promoting awareness of ethical and social impact issues related to computing and for providing leadership that encourages responsible action on the part of computer professionals.
		Awarded to honor a significant contribution to computer science education that has had a long lasting impact and made a significant difference in computing education, and includes a plaque and a prize of $1,000.
	www1.acm.org /awards/som4-4award.html (1661 words)

	Vannevar Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Bush was educated at Tufts College, graduating in 1913.
		Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1939 and in the same year appointed chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vannevar_Bush (889 words)

	Vannevar Bush - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890–June 30, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and politician, known for his political role in the development in the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex —seen as a pioneering concept for the world wide web.
		Vannevar Bush plays an important role in many UFO conspiracy theories as the head of Majestic 12, an organization supposedly formed by Dwight Eisenhower to investigate and later cover up an alien crash in Roswell, New Mexico.
		The Vannevar Bush Award was created by the National Science Foundation in 1980 to honor contributions to public service.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /vannevar_bush.htm (731 words)

	Charles Townes, Raj Reddy receive the 2006 Vannevar Bush Award
		Bush was a prominent science adviser to the President and wrote the highly acclaimed report, Science: The Endless Frontier, that steered government science policy beyond World War II into a more modern era and made the case for establishing what became the National Science Foundation.
		The awards announced today are the 25th and 26th in the history of the national honor.
		Townes receives the award just over a century after Einstein's 1905 epoch paper on the "photoelectric effect." While electronics emerged not long afterward, it was not until nearly 50 years later that Townes defined some of the practical applications of Einstein's insight.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-04/nsf-ctr042706.php (830 words)

	Vannevar Bush - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890–June 30, 1974) was an American scientist.
		In 1940, Bush became chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and in 1941 director of Office of Scientific Research and Development, which controlled the Manhattan Project.
		He invented the concept of what he called the memex in the 1930s, "a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility" and indicated what would become hypertext.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /v/va/vannevar_bush.html (440 words)

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		Bush tells a masterful story of technology’s state of the art in 1945 and of taking its trends to their logical conclusion, revealing how his vision was both guided by and limited by that technology.
		Bush suggested a rather extreme approach, which is to devise a natural language suited particularly for analysis and parsing by machine: “All [a scientist] needs to do is to take advantage of existing mechanisms and to alter his language.” It is interesting to note that Bush did not discuss digital content storage.
		Bush’s key observation was that in addition to rapid selection by number, an essential part of the system was associative annotation and selection: arbitrary pages could be linked together by the user, forming a “trail” of documents that could be later recalled.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~eylon/cs294-classics/bush-lecture/bush-as-we-may-think.doc (3164 words)

	Geological Society of America - Awards & Medals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Pecora Award, sponsored jointly by NASA and the Department of the Interior, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions of individuals or groups toward the understanding of Earth by means of remote sensing.
		The Vannevar Bush Award is to a person who, through public service activities in science and technology, has made an outstanding contribution toward the welfare of humankind and the nation.
		The Vannevar Bush Award is given to a senior statesperson of science and technology and compliments the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, which is given to a promising young scientist.
	www.geosociety.org /aboutus/awards/national.htm (459 words)

	Vannevar Bush
		Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890.
		To improve the solution of complex mathematical equations, Bush developed a mechanical differential analyzer by 1931 that used revolving disk integrators to trace equations on drawing boards and was used in universities and corporations until the electrical Rockefeller differential analyzer was developed to calculate ballistic curve tables during World War II.
		Bush prospered in private employment with the Carnegie Institution after the war, and as director of AT&T until 1962, and as chairman of the board at Merck from 1957 until 1962.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/vannevar3.html (657 words)

	Vannevar Bush biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He despised the humanities and social sciences (he badly weakened American anthropology when he choked off a large part of its funding in the 1930s), and refused to talk to the librarians who could have helped refine his ideas.
		But the memex is still an important accomplishment, because it directly inspired the development of hypertext.
		After fantasizing about the potential of microfilm for several years, Bush set out his thoughts at length in the essay "As We May Think" in Atlantic Monthly in 1945.
	vannevar-bush.biography.ms (510 words)

	Awards in the Behavioral Sciences: Think About Nominating Someone
		AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology: Recognizes scientists and engineers who make outstanding contributions to the “popularization of science.” The Award is given to scientists, who, while working in their fields, have also contributed substantially to public understanding of science and technology.
		Both the awards recognize an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies or who has impacted the climate of a department, college, or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies.
		The award is intended not only to reward the individuals responsible, but also to draw attention to their ideas, proposals or achievements.
	www.apa.org /science/psa/jan5awards.html (1000 words)

	Distinguished Achievement Awards and Honorary Societies - Research Management Group - Stanford University School of ...
		The Keio Medical Science Prize is awarded to researchers in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the field of medical sciences or life sciences in the hope that it will ultimately contribute to the peace and prosperity of humankind.
		The purpose of this award is to honor a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contributuions to knowledge in either of these fields are deemed worthy of special recognition.
		The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.
	www-med.stanford.edu /rmg/funding/distinguished.html (2166 words)

	Vannevar Bush - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Bush, Vannevar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		An electrical engineer by training, Vannevar Bush is credited with having the idea of hypertext or "instant cross-referencing," decades before the term itself was conceived by Ted Nelson and before the concept was widely implemented on the World Wide Web.
		Bush's primary legacy remains that of the hypertext concept - he is remembered as a forefather of the World Wide Web.
		Bush's seminal article, " As We May Think " was published in The Atlantic Monthly.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci214000,00.html (346 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Vannevar Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890–June 30, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and politician.
		As scholars like Buckland have proved, the memex was severely flawed because Bush did not understand information science, or microfilm very well.
		He was ignorant of the microflm based workstation proposed by Leonard Townsend in 1938 or the more detailed microfilm and electronics based selector, patented by Emmanuel Goldberg in 1931.
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Vannevar_Bush (716 words)

	BORLAUG HONORED WITH VANNEVAR BUSH AWARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Borlaug, a distinguished professor of International Agriculture at Texas AandM University, was one of two individuals receiving the 20th Vannevar Bush award.
		The award commemorates the leadership of Vannevar Bush, who called for creation of the National Science Foundation as a focus for the government's support of research and education in science and technology and for development of a national science policy.
		Borlaug was honored for six decades of pioneering efforts to expand the world food supply through improvements in wheat production, a lifetime dedication of helping feed the hungry in nations removed from the national media spotlight, and also for his training of young farmers and scientists in research and production methods throughout the developing world.
	agnews.tamu.edu /stories/AGPR/May2700a.htm (421 words)

	Vannevar Bush
		Vannevar Bush - Vannevar Bush Born: 1890 Differential Analyzer.
		Richard C. Atkinson chosen for the Vannevar Bush Award.
		Two statesmen of science are first of the new century to receive the Vannevar Bush Award.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0809585.html (382 words)

	Herbert York To Receive Vannevar Bush Award: UCSD Press Release - April 12, 2000
		The Science Board, which selects the recipients of its award for their lifetime of achievement in science and public service, for the first time in the award's twenty-year history named two renowned scientists this year as recipients of the award.
		The other recipient of this year's Vannevar Bush Award is Norman E. Borlaug, an agronomist at Texas A&M University who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for leading the agricultural movement to increase food production in developing countries.
		Like Vannevar Bush, an advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman who oversaw the Manhattan Project and proposed the creation of the science foundation, York has a long list of accomplishments as a scientist, Presidential advisor, and a leader in national security issues.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/pim/pim8.htm (783 words)

	Charles Townes Receives 2006 Vannevar Bush Award
		At the age of 90, Townes is an active researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, where he uses infrared interferometry to measure the size of old, dying stars and to study the gases that escape from them.
		The National Science Board established the Bush Award in 1980 to honor the legacy of Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution from 1939-1955 and a chief architect of postwar U.S. science policy.
		Bush’s influential 1945 report to President Roosevelt entitled “Science: The Endless Frontier” argued that federal investment in basic research is necessary for economic progress and stability, and also paved the way for the establishment of the National Science Foundation.
	www.carnegieinstitution.org /Townes/default.html (510 words)

	Geophysicist Wins Award from Sigma Xi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Geophysicist Wins Award from Sigma Xi Geophysicist Wins Award from Sigma Xi Frank Press, the pioneering geophysicist and former presidential scientific adviser who began his career at Columbia, will be awarded the first Distinguished Scholar Award of the Columbia chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Society.
		The award will be given annually to a scientist affiliated with Columbia who has made notable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
		Among many honors are the recently awarded National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss24/record2024.19.html (387 words)

	timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With regard to the nature of these reccomendations, President Roosevelt requested that Dr. Bush focus on areas which could be employed..."for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living."
		Bush wrote: "It is my judgment that the national interest in scientific research and scientific education can best be promoted by the creation of a National Research Foundation." -Science the Endless Frontier, PP.28 Sec.
		1946 The Washington Award presented by the Western Socciety of Engineers 1947 June The Distinguished Service Medal of Tufts College, and the Hoover Medal for 1946 awarded by the American Institute of Engineers, the American Society of Civel Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
	graphics.cs.brown.edu /html/info/timeline.html (952 words)

	Awards Honors & Appointments
		The science board, which selects the recipients of its award for their lifetime of achievement in science and public service, for the first time in the award’s 20-year history named two renowned scientists this year as recipients of the award.
		The other recipient of this year’s Vannevar Bush Award is Norman E. Borlaug, an agronomist at Texas AandM University who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for leading the agricultural movement to increase food production in developing countries.
		In selecting York for the Vannevar Bush Award, the science board said "York’s contributions were marked by the merging of scientific advancements with public policy that emphasizes social responsibility."
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/awards/mcyork.htm (743 words)

	BORLAUG ONE OF TWO SCIENTISTS HONORED WITH VANNEVAR BUSH AWARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The other scientist named for the Bush Award is Dr. Herbert F. York, a nuclear physicist who helped design sophisticated nuclear weapons and then became a leading voice in arms control and disarmament.
		York is professor and director emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of San Diego, an organization he founded in 1983.
		The two men will be honored by the National Science Board at a May 3 dinner hosted at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes a senior statesperson and pioneer in science and technology who has a distinguished record in public service, or whose achievements contribute to the nation and mankind.
	agnews.tamu.edu /stories/AGPR/Apr1300b.htm (328 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Jackson Wins Vannevar Bush Award
		Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected by NSF's National Science Board (NSB) to receive the Vannevar Bush Award.
		"I am thrilled and humbled to receive the Vannevar Bush Award," Jackson says.
		Jackson earned a Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973—marking the first doctorate awarded to an African American woman in any field by MIT.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/news/85/i13/8513news11.html (233 words)

	Links to Vannevar Bush References
		Vannevar Bush Symposium Outline: Call for Participation, Vannevar Bush Symposium MIT, October 12-13, 1995 Boston, As you may know, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's landmark paper, "As We May Think," published first in the Atlantic Monthly and subsequently in Life magazine.
		A Hypermedia Timeline 1945 Vannevar Bush (The Science Advisor to President Roosevelt during World War II) proposes MEMEX, a conceptual machine that can store vast amounts of information, in which users have the ability to create information trails, links of related texts and illustrations, which can be stored and used for future reference.
		Bush Fund Brouhaha Obscures Issue Now that both The Thistle and The Tech have exhaustively covered the story of the beleaguered Vannevar Bush Trust, I believe it is the right time to cut through the misinformation, and give you my perspective.
	www.ausbcomp.com /~bbott/wik/bushref.htm (943 words)

	National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
		The National Science Board (NSB) will present Atkinson with the Bush award for his groundbreaking research and long-standing public service at an annual awards dinner May 21 at the Department of State.
		The Vannevar Bush Award was established to recognize the 30th anniversary of NSF's creation.
		In 1945, Vannevar Bush, as science advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, issued a report that recommended a government entity be formed to be the focal point to encourage federal support of fundamental scientific research, education and technology.
	www.npaci.edu /online/v7.10/atkinson.html (805 words)

	MIT Press: Annual Report FY 2000-2001: MIT Libraries
		This prestigious award "honors working scientists and engineers who make outstanding contributions to the ‘popularization of science." Lewis Branscomb, who has edited several MIT Press titles on science and technology policy, received the Vannevar Bush Award presented in May of 2001 by the National Science Board (NSB) at a Department of State-hosted awards dinner.
		The Media award recognizes outstanding publications which bring issues relative to the importance of trees and conservation to the public and was presented on April 28, 2001 at the 29th annual National Arbor Day Awards Banquet and Ceremonies in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
		The VBPA Awards were presented at the VBPA Awards Night held at the Montshire Museum in Norwich, VT June 9, 2001.
	libraries.mit.edu /about/annual/ar01/press.html (5780 words)

	M2 Presswire: Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		M2 Presswire: Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.@ HighBeam Research
		Harold Varmus, Lewis Branscomb are honored with the Vannevar Bush Award.
		Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and a Nobel prize holder for contributions to understanding the mechanisms of cancer, and Lewis M. Branscomb, a physicist, former NSB chair and one of the most compelling voices in science...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74359733&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (188 words)

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