From Memex To Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine

Name: From Memex To Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
Brand: Academic Press
SKU: ByrdShop_0125232705
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hardcover – December 31, 1991

by Kahn, Paul

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ISBN-13: 9780125232708 ISBN-10: 0125232705

Publisher

Academic Press

Binding

hardcover

Published

December 31, 1991

Weight

1.5 lbs

Dimensions

24.10×1.90×16.50 cm

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From Memex To Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine by Kahn, Paul. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780125232708.

Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the worlds most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bushs Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bushs essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bushs ideas and Memex.