Vannevar Bush was an engineer and early computer scientist, known primarily within new media as the father of the Memex concept, a plan for a device that would make information retrieval easy and accessible for all users. The idea for the Memex preceeding, and some believe inspired, the development of many new media forms including the Internet, World Wide Web, Wikis, speech recognition systems and in general the ubiquitous personal computing era.

Contents 1 Publications 2 Biography 3 See also 4 External links

PublicationsEdit

• 1922, Principles of Electrical Engineering.
• 1929, Operational Circuit Analysis.
• 1945, July, "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly[1].
• 1945, Science: The Endless Frontier, a report to president Roosevelt outlining his proposal for post-war U.S. science and technology policy
• 1946, Endless Horizons, a collection of papers and addresses.
• 1949, "Modern Arms and Free Men", a discussion of the role of science in preserving democratic institutions.
• 1967, Science Is Not Enough
• 1970, "Pieces of the Action", an examination of science and the state.

BiographyEdit

Zachary, G. Pascal, 1999. Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. MIT Press.

See alsoEdit

• Memex
• As We May Think
• Hypertext
• Douglas Engelbart
• Ted Nelson

External linksEdit

• Internet Pioneers – Vannevar Bush
• The Computer at Nature's Core by David F. Channell
• Pioneers: Vannevar Bush (1890–1974)
• Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush by Erin Malone
• Annotated bibliography for Vannevar Bush from the Alsos Digital Library