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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
ISBN-13
9780125232708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104454012
Product Key Features
Author
James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn
Publication Name
From Memex to Hypertext
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
367 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
730g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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