Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑːr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World...
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As We May Think (redirect from As We May Think by Vannevar Bush)
"As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society...
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National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award (/væˈniːvər/ van-NEE-vər) in 1980 to honor Vannevar Bush's unique contributions to public service...
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interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals...
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Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 written by Vannevar Bush, titled "As We May Think". Within this article Vannevar urged scientists to work together to help...
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States joined World War II, Vannevar Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution. Several months prior to June 12, 1940, Bush persuaded President Franklin...
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and OSRD head Vannevar Bush. Narratives about the National Science Foundation prior to the 1970s typically concentrated on Vannevar Bush and his 1945 publication...
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President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice-President (effectively Provost) Vannevar Bush emphasized the importance of pure sciences like physics and chemistry...
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almost unlimited access to funding and resources, and was directed by Vannevar Bush, who reported only to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The research...
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Linus Pauling (category Vannevar Bush Award recipients)
1987 Award in Chemical Education, American Chemical Society. 1989 Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Board. 1990 Richard C. Tolman Medal, American...
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Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), under director Vannevar Bush. The office was empowered to engage in research and large engineering...
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signature—including accidental scratch marks—from a memo that Truman wrote to Vannevar Bush on October 1, 1947". Klass dismissed theories that the documents were...
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Foster Boy, Miss Virginia, and The Martini Shot. In 2023 he portrayed Vannevar Bush in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Modine appeared...
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marketing and optimization, has thus largely focused on Google. In 1945, Vannevar Bush described an information retrieval system that would allow a user to...
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of the Internet. Vannevar Bush and J.C.R. Licklider are two contributors that advanced this idea into then current technology. Bush had supported research...
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Differential analyser (redirect from Bush differential analyzer)
constructed by Harold Locke Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT, 1928–1931, comprising six mechanical integrators. In the same year, Bush described this machine in a...
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Waltham from 1941 to 1961 and Lexington from 1961 to 2003. In 1922, Vannevar Bush, scientist and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering...
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founded in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith as the American Appliance Company. Its focus,...
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in 1950. In June 1940, with World War II already raging in Europe, Vannevar Bush, the director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, recruited Conant...
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developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery...
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Defense Research Committee (NDRC) under Vannevar Bush, which absorbs the Uranium Committee. September 6: Bush tells Briggs that the NDRC will provide...
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often considered an inspiration for the concept of hypertext. In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think", about...
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inspiration to Engelbart was the article "As We May Think", written by Vannevar Bush in The Atlantic magazine, which Engelbart read while stationed as a...
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matters to the President of the United States. The first Science Advisor, Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, served...
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team of six assembled in Washington on 12 September 1940. Tizard met Vannevar Bush, the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, on 31 August...
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Raj Reddy (category Vannevar Bush Award recipients)
in 2001, the Okawa Prize in 2004, the Honda Prize in 2005, and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. Machine Intelligence and Robotics: Report of the NASA...
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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century is a 1997 non-fiction book written by G. Pascal Zachary, published by The Free Press...
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Hans Bethe (category Vannevar Bush Award recipients)
Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions...
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island of Leyte in a small traditional hut on stilts, that he read Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think", which would have a large influence on his...
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but with a growing interest in isotope separation. On 12 June 1940, Vannevar Bush, the president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Harry...
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