All self-serving claims to the contrary, the American scientific system at the end of the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency has more in common with apartheid-era South Africa than with
Vannevar Bush's vision during the Truman and Eisenhower era.
Ironically, the electrical engineer
Vannevar Bush did not immediately sense the world-altering potential of the Manhattan Project.
Following ideas inspired by
Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955 (it was sold to the Thomson Corporation in 1992.
The second chapter, "A brief genealogy of Virtual Reality," provides twenty-two concepts and names that the author considers essential, such as: From the stone cavern to the telematic cavern, Representation and immersive technology, Mathematical robots,
Vannevar Bush, Cyber(punk)space, Artificial life, La Cave, and Augmented reality.
In his article 'As we may think' published in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945,
Vannevar Bush proposed the idea of a virtually limitless, fast, reliable, extensible, associative memory storage and retrieval system.
There are familiar players, like
Vannevar Bush, James Forrestal, and Hoyt Vandenberg.
In more recent times, the notion of cognitive orthotics connects to
Vannevar Bush and his vision of a memory orthosis.
Prior to NSF, Suresh was dean of the School of Engineering and
Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1945,
Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation.
American engineer
Vannevar Bush wrote, in an article for The Atlantic in 1945, suggesting a system called the memex (memory index) into which people would compress and store all manner of books and information.
She has served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received many awards, including the National Science Foundation's highest honor, the
Vannevar Bush Award.
