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Re: On ARPA's 50th Anniversary
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:17:27 -0800
________________________________________ From: Peter H Salus [peter () pedant com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:01 AM To: David Farber; ip Subject: Re: [IP] Re: On ARPA's 50th Anniversary Absolutely, Tice! Bush did important work at MIT on analog computing in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a co-founder of Raytheon. Etc. And Bush's "As we may think" (in The Atlantic, January 1945) inspired both Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. Bush is a relatively unsung hero. I know of only two books (Nyce & Kahn's 1991 anthology, "From Memex to Hypertext" [Academic Press] and Zachary's excellent "Endless Frontier" [MIT Press, 1999] that are devoted to Bush's contributions. Peter On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:20:03 -0800, David Farber wrote ________________________________________
From: Tice DeYoung [ticed () bellatlantic net] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:58 AM To: David Farber Cc: Tice DeYoung Subject: Re: [IP] On ARPA's 50th Anniversary Dave - for IP, if you wish Before James Killian in the late '50s there was Vannevar Bush in the '40s. His book, Modern Arms and Free Men, published in 1949 describes in detail how basic research is vital to the U.S. He coined the term military-industrial complex. He founded the National Science Foundation. He understood better than anyone today the need for well funded basic research. Tice ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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