From Memex to hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the mind's machine
From Memex to hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the mind's machine
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
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Vannevar Bush (Fig. 1), the son of a clergyman, was born in Massachusetts on 11 March 1890. He attended Tufts University in the years before the First World War and earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees. He then continued on for a doctorate, which was conferred upon him in 1916 simultaneously by both Harvard and MIT. While a graduate student, he worked for General Electric and the US Navy, and taught mathematics at Tufts. In 1919 he joined the teaching staff of MIT, obtaining a full professorship in 1923 and becoming Vice President and Dean of the Engineering School in 1932. He remained with MIT until 1938, when he was elected President of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, a position he held until retiring from active public life in 1955.