Interestingly, Vannevar Bush had written in 1936 of " bits of information " that could be stored on the punched cards used in the mechanical computers of that time.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called " As We May Think ", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex.

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Analog computers, like those designed and built by Vannevar Bush before World War II were of this type.

The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927, which in turn built on the mechanical integrators invented in 1876 by James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman.

The idea of using computers to search for relevant pieces of information was popularized in the article As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945.

Curricular reforms under Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush in the 1930s re-emphasized basic scientific research.

In the 1930s, President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice-President ( effectively Provost ) Vannevar Bush reformed the applied technology curriculum by re-emphasizing the importance of " pure " sciences like physics and chemistry and by reducing the vocational practice required in shops and drafting studios.

In 1941, Vannevar Bush was appointed head of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development and directed funding to only a select group of universities, including MIT.

* 1890 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician ( d. 1974 )

The memex ( a portmanteau of " memory " and " index ") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article " As We May Think " ( AWMT ).

The supervisor had just seen a demonstration of the World Wide Web and suggested it could be improved and better conformed to the memex described by Vannevar Bush if links did not have to be manually inserted and instead one could follow a link simply by using the words themselves.

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* Vannevar Bush and Memex – Living Internet

Among his many honors are the Palladium Medal of the Electrochemical Society, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists, the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, the Vannevar Bush Award and the National Medal of Science.

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Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974 ) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan Project, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.

Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood née Paine.

The National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award ( ) in 1980 to honor Dr. Vannevar Bush's unique contributions to public service.

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* June 28-President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8807 creating the Office of Scientific Research and Development with Vannevar Bush as its director.

Vannevar Bush, the director of the Carnegie Institution, had pressed for the creation of the NDRC because he had experienced during World War I the lack of cooperation between civilian scientists and the military.

Armed with this idea and inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous article As We May Think, Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information in the 1960s developed a comprehensive index of how scientific thinking propagates.

In spring 2007 she was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award for " a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy.

Groves and Vannevar Bush, the head of OSRD, selected the scientific staff, and appointed Samuel Goudsmit, a University of Michigan physicist with a good command of several Western European languages, as its head.

The influential bureaucrat Vannevar Bush, and the president of Harvard, James Conant, both encouraged the study of the history of science as a way of improving general knowledge about how science worked, and why it was essential to maintain a large scientific workforce.

Though the United States government had begun seriously investing in scientific research for national security since World War I, it was only in late 1930s and 1940s that monumental amounts of resources were committed or coordinated to wartime scientific problems, under the auspices first of the National Defense Research Committee, and later the Office of Scientific Research and Development, organized and administered by the MIT engineer Vannevar Bush.

Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article " As We May Think ", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking ; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955.

On 1 July 1941, Vannevar Bush, the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, created the larger and more powerful Office of Scientific Research and Development ( OSRD ) which was empowered to engage in large engineering projects in addition to research.

Computing research at MIT began with Vannevar Bush's research into a differential analyzer and Claude Shannon's electronic Boolean algebra in the 1930s, the wartime Radiation Laboratory, the post-war Project Whirlwind and Research Laboratory of Electronics ( RLE ), and Lincoln Laboratory's SAGE in the early 1950s.

Pegram and his colleague Harold C. Urey soon found themselves on Vannevar Bush's S-1 Uranium Committee coordinating all technical research.

* July 1: Responsibility for fission research is taken over by Vannevar Bush's National Defense Research Committee.

* December 6: Vannevar Bush holds a meeting to organize an accelerated research project, still managed by Arthur Compton.

In 1943, Vannevar Bush and Caryl Haskins of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development directed resources toward the development of technologies to assist wounded veterans.

In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge.

For example, wearable computer imaging systems were described by Vannevar Bush in his essay " As We May Think " in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 and wearable devices for timing the trajectory of the balls on a roulette table were built and used by Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon in 1961.

He later worked for Glenn L. Martin and, still later, for the National Defense Research Committee ( NDRC ) and the Office of Scientific Research and Development, headed at that time by Dr. Vannevar Bush.

These included: the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom from Great Britain, officer in the French Legion of Honor, the Medal for Merit, the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, the Atoms for Peace Award, the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Four Freedoms Award from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation.

He is the experiment subject for the MyLifeBits project, an experiment in life-logging ( not the same as life-blogging ) and an attempt to fulfill Vannevar Bush's vision of an automated store of the documents, pictures ( including those taken automatically ), and sounds an individual has experienced in his lifetime, to be accessed with speed and ease.

# Carry forward the vision of Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, and Ted Nelson of the computer as a medium for communication, collaboration, and coordination.

In the post-war era, Vannevar Bush's differential analyser, John von Neumann's cellular automata, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, and Claude Shannon's information theory became influential paradigms for modeling and understanding complexity in technical systems.

SIGIR also co-sponsors ( with SIGWEB ) the Vannevar Bush Award, for the best paper at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

" In 2005, he was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award for " his visionary leadership to enhance U. S. innovation, competitiveness, and excellence at the interface of science and technology with the Nation ’ s industrial enterprise.