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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.
* 1890Vannevar 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.
Category: Vannevar Bush Award recipients
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.
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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Meeting at UC Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ): Lawrence, Arthur Compton | A. Compton, Vannevar Bush | V. Bush, James Bryant Conant | J.

Vannevar and was
The term HyperText was coined by Ted Nelson who in turn was inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based " memex ".
He was named after John Vannevar, an old friend of the family who had attended Tufts College with Perry.
Although Reybold was satisfied with the progress being made, Dr. Vannevar Bush was less so.
Sketchpad, in turn, was influenced by the conceptual Memex as envisioned by Vannevar Bush in his influential paper " As We May Think ".
Sutherland was inspired by the Memex from ' As We May Think ' by Vannevar Bush.
Another opponent was Vannevar Bush, who was the liaison between Congress and the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
; 1945: Vannevar Bush — head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, intimately connected with the Manhattan Project, and personal acquaintance of the President — was asked by President Roosevelt in 1944 to write a report on what should be done in the postwar to further foster government commitment to science and technology.
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.
Because he had performed more work in this area than anyone else in the country, Loomis was appointed by Vannevar Bush to the National Defense Research Committee as chairman of the Microwave Committee and vice-chairman of Division D ( Detection, Controls, Instruments ).
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.
One of his PhD students was Vannevar Bush.
However, the first widely practical differential analyser was constructed by Harold Locke Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT, 1928 – 1931, comprising six mechanical integrators.
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.
His advisor at MIT was Vannevar Bush, who first proposed what became the National Science Foundation.
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.
The China Lake Way, more formally known as Principles of Operation, was created in the late 1940s through the leadership of Vannevar Bush.
It superseded the work of the National Defense Research Committee ( NDRC ), was given almost unlimited access to funding and resources, and was directed by Vannevar Bush, who reported only to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Vannevar and Massachusetts
In 1922, two former Tufts engineering college roommates Laurence K. Marshall and Vannevar Bush, along with scientist Charles G. Smith, founded the American Appliance Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1933, he visited Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and learned at first hand about his differential analyser.
The other members were: James F. Byrnes, former US Senator and soon to be Secretary of State, as President Truman's personal representative ; Ralph A. Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy ; William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State ; Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of the Carnegie Institution ; Karl T. Compton, Chief of the Office of Field Service in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; James B. Conant, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and president of Harvard University ; and George L. Harrison, an assistant to Stimson and president of the New York Life Insurance Company.

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