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From Memex To Hypertext
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.19
EAN: 9780125232708
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0125232705
Label: Academic Press
Manufacturer: Academic Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 367
Publication Date: December 17, 1991
Publisher: Academic Press
Studio: Academic Press
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Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.
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Vannevar Bush was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In the
July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, he published a popular science article entitled
"As We May Think." Bush discusses a device called a "memex", a sort of workstation with vast optical storage
and mechanical information retrieval using associative indexing and "trails". The article is
of interest today not only because he happened to get pretty close to how the future finally ... Read More
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