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From Memex to hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the mind's machine / [edited by] James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn.

Contributor(s): Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Nyce, James M | Kahn, Paul, 1949-Material type: TextTextReference number:ocm24870981Publication details: Boston : Academic Press, c1991. Description: xi, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0125232705 (acid-free paper)Subject(s): Electronic analog computers -- History | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | ComputersDDC classification: 004.1/9 LOC classification: QA76.4 | .F76 1991
Contents:
Pt. 1. The Creation of Memex. Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer / Larry Owens. A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex / James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn. The Inscrutable 'Thirties / Vannevar Bush. Memorandum Regarding Memex / Vannevar Bush. As We May Think / Vannevar Bush -- Pt. 2. The Extension of Memex. The Idea of a Machine: The Later Memex Essays / Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce. A Practical View of Memex: The Career of the Rapid Selector / Colin Burke. Memex II / Vannevar Bush. Science Pauses / Vannevar Bush. Memex Revisited / Vannevar Bush. From "Of Inventions and Inventors" / Vannevar Bush -- Pt. 3. The Legacy of Memex. Letter to Vannevar Bush and Program On Human Effectiveness / Douglas C. Engelbart. As We Will Think / Theodor H. Nelson. Memex as an Image of Potentiality Revisited / Linda C. Smith. Hypertext--Does It Reduce Cholesterol, Too? / Norman Meyrowitz. Memex: Getting Back on the Trail / Tim Oren. Aristotle's Library: Memex as Vision and Hypertext as Reality / Gregory Crane. From Trailblazing to Guided Tours: The Legacy of Vannevar Bush's Vision of Hypertext Use / Randall H. Trigg.
Summary: In 1945, Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computers and the official responsible for U.S. scientific research and development during WWII, published an essay in which he predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. Today, computers in millions of offices and homes perform tasks that closely resemble the ideas that Bush proposed. For many people in the fields of computer and information science, Bush's Memex has been the prototype of the personal computer, and the first design for a machine to help people think and manage information. Yet, with all its renown, Memex is largely misunderstood. In From Memex to Hypertext, all of Bush's writings about Memex have been collected for the first time. Surrounding Bush's essays are chapters by historians and leading figures in the computer science research community telling the story of how the idea of Memex was developed and how Bush's writings have influenced today's research agenda in hypertext, multimedia, and artificial intelligence.
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Pt. 1. The Creation of Memex. Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer / Larry Owens. A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex / James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn. The Inscrutable 'Thirties / Vannevar Bush. Memorandum Regarding Memex / Vannevar Bush. As We May Think / Vannevar Bush -- Pt. 2. The Extension of Memex. The Idea of a Machine: The Later Memex Essays / Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce. A Practical View of Memex: The Career of the Rapid Selector / Colin Burke. Memex II / Vannevar Bush. Science Pauses / Vannevar Bush. Memex Revisited / Vannevar Bush. From "Of Inventions and Inventors" / Vannevar Bush -- Pt. 3. The Legacy of Memex. Letter to Vannevar Bush and Program On Human Effectiveness / Douglas C. Engelbart. As We Will Think / Theodor H. Nelson. Memex as an Image of Potentiality Revisited / Linda C. Smith. Hypertext--Does It Reduce Cholesterol, Too? / Norman Meyrowitz. Memex: Getting Back on the Trail / Tim Oren. Aristotle's Library: Memex as Vision and Hypertext as Reality / Gregory Crane. From Trailblazing to Guided Tours: The Legacy of Vannevar Bush's Vision of Hypertext Use / Randall H. Trigg.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computers and the official responsible for U.S. scientific research and development during WWII, published an essay in which he predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. Today, computers in millions of offices and homes perform tasks that closely resemble the ideas that Bush proposed. For many people in the fields of computer and information science, Bush's Memex has been the prototype of the personal computer, and the first design for a machine to help people think and manage information. Yet, with all its renown, Memex is largely misunderstood. In From Memex to Hypertext, all of Bush's writings about Memex have been collected for the first time. Surrounding Bush's essays are chapters by historians and leading figures in the computer science research community telling the story of how the idea of Memex was developed and how Bush's writings have influenced today's research agenda in hypertext, multimedia, and artificial intelligence.

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