name: Vannevar Bush
image: img/vannevar-bush.gif
period: 1940s
American engineer, inventor and science administrator who coordinated work on 6000+ scientists though WWII. Worked on analog computers, "difference engine", proposed Memex concept after the war. 1940 rejection of Norbert Wiener's proposal on building a digital computer.
- MIT
- Manhattan Project
- AT&T Board member
- Differential analyzer (TK link!)
- Memex hypothetical proto-hypertext system described in 1945
- Douglas Engelbart, who read "As we may think" in '45
- Claude Shannon, who was his student
- Article "As we may think" in Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
- Book "From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine", 1991 by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn
- https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html
- MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush symposium, celebrating the 50th anniversary of "As we may think" publication, 1995