From Memex to hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the mind's machine / [edited by] James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn.

Date:
[1991], ©1991
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Boston : Academic Press, [1991], ©1991.

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xi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: BNA

Contents

Vannevar Bush and the differential analyzer : the text and context of an early computer / Larry Owens.--A machine for the mind : Vannevar Bush's memex / James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn.--The inscrutable thirties ; Memorandum regarding memex ; As we may think / Vannevar Bush.--The idea of a machine: the later memex essays / Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce.--A practical view of memex : the career of the rapid selector / Colin Burke.--Memex II ; Science Pauses ; Memex revisited ; From "Of inventions and inventors" / Vannevar Bush.--Letter to Vannevar Bush and program on human effectiveness / Douglas C. Engelbart.--As we will think / Theodor H. Nelson.--Memex as an image of potentiality revisited / Linda C. Smith.--Hypertext - does it reduce cholesterol, too? / Norman Meyrowitz.--Memex : getting back on the trail / Tim Oren.--Aristotle's library: memex as vision and hypertext as reality / Gregory Crane.--From trailblazing to guided tours: the legacy of Vannevar Bush's vision of hypertext use / Randall H. Trigg.

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  • 0125232705