From Memex to Hypertext Hardcover - 1991 - 1st Edition
by James M. Nyce; Paul Kahn
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 of the personal computer and a design for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commercial researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to Bush's ideas and Memex.
From the rear cover
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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- Title From Memex to Hypertext
- Author James M. Nyce; Paul Kahn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 367
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Academic Press, San Diego, CA
- Date 1991-12-17
- ISBN 9780125232708 / 0125232705
- Weight 1.73 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.36 x 1.13 in (23.72 x 16.15 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Electronic analog computers - History, Bush, Vannevar
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91076751
- Dewey Decimal Code 004.19
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