Vannevar Bush
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Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex-seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. A leading figure in the development of the military-industrial complex and the military funding of science in the United States, …
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| Born: | March 11, 1890 |
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| Died: | June 30, 1974 |
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Vannevar Bush. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush |
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1890 March 11 Born to Richard Perry and Emma Linwood (Paine) Bush;
Everett, MA. graphics.cs.brown.edu/html/info/timeline.html |
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Bush was never directly involved with the creation or development
of the Internet. www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html |
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While Stibitz and Zuse were developing the circuitry that would eventually lead to the invention of the digital computer, Vannevar Bush was attempting to re-invent Charles Babbage's Difference Engine. He did it, too. www.kerryr.net/pioneers/bush.htm |
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Titled, As We May Think, the articles author, Vannevar Bush (18901974), proposed a new mechanical machine to help scholars and decision makers make sense of the growing mountains of information being published in to the world. www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/foreseeing_the_future_the... |
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As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr.
Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand
leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.txt |
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computer pioneer engineer analog computer Information scientist Futurologist from Middlesex County, Massachusetts American Presidential Medal for Merit recipient military-industrial complex Memetics technocracy memex military funding of science National Medal of Science recipient atomic bomb World Wide Web World War II electrical engineer Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Harvard University alumni Manhattan Project Cold War National Inventors Hall of Fame Tufts University alumni Internet pioneer Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Futurist information science Academic Press Bush Trust Undergraduate Association president MIT TV MIT Student Center Undergraduate Association MIT Department of Electrical Engineering Science Advisor president of MIT President Roosevelt Bush Fund
