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    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" 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    All major histories of what we now call hypertext start in 1945, when Vannevar Bush wrote an article in The Atlantic Monthly called "As We May Think", about...
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    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...
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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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    providing tax incentives to those organizations who fund research. Vannevar Bush, director of the office of scientific research and development for the...
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