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5 days ago · Vannevar Bush (born March 11, 1890, Everett, Mass., U.S.—died June 28, 1974, Belmont, Mass.) was an American electrical engineer and administrator who developed the Differential Analyzer and oversaw government mobilization of scientific research during World War II.
1 day ago · Scientists also began to play a greater role in advising government officials, particularly the president. The most influential of these advisors was Vannevar Bush, who not only advised President Roosevelt but also was one of the primary architects of the new government-science institutions of the period (Douglas, 2009; Guston, 2000).
3 days ago · In a dramatic leap forward in scale, efficiency, and cost, researchers at Stanford University have built a Ti:sapphire laser on a chip. The prototype is four orders of magnitude smaller (10,000x) and three orders less expensive (1,000x) than any Ti:sapphire laser ever produced. “This is a complete departure from the old model,” said Jelena ...
3 days ago · Funding for this research courtesy of the Institute of Engineering and Technology A.F. Harvey Prize, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced ...
3 days ago · In a dramatic leap forward in scale, efficiency, and cost, researchers at Stanford University have built a Ti:sapphire laser on a chip. The prototype is four orders of magnitude smaller (10,000x) and three orders less expensive (1,000x) than any Ti:sapphire laser ever produced. “This is a complete departure from the old model,” said Jelena ...
1 day ago · He took the existing idea of hypertext and hyperlinks by Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) and Ted Nelson (born 1937), expanding it to the entire world rather than just on a single computer, giving us the HTTP protocol, the universal naming concept of URLs, and the mark-up language HTML, combined in a deceptively simple manner.
3 days ago · This Friday 28-Jun 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Vannevar Bush on 28-Jun 1974. Therefore its timely to build awareness of the distilled lines of evidence (but not proof..!) tying Vannevar Bush to The Program.
