Vannevar Bush

Surprisingly, few books have been written that cover the full history of the Internet, from progenitors such as Vannevar Bush and J.C. R. Licklider up through the entrepreneurial age of our own times.

How the Web Was Won Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb 2008

Even though as a candidate FDR concluded in 1932 that "Our last frontier has long since been reached," his advisor Vannevar Bush proclaimed an "endless frontier" of science research in 1945.

Jonathan D. Moreno: America's Problem With "Progress" Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

In the winter of 1945, Vannevar Bush had written to President Roosevelt, “The striking advances in medicine during the war have been possible only because we had a large backlog of scientific data accumulated through basic research in many scientific fields in the years before the war.”

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

At the end of the Second World War, President Roosevelt wrote a letter requesting recommendations from Vannevar Bush, the first presidential science advisor and co-leader of the Manhattan Project, for the creation of a new federal enterprise for science and technology.

Teryn Norris: The Collapse of Competitiveness Policy 2010

In the winter of 1945, Vannevar Bush had written to President Roosevelt, “The striking advances in medicine during the war have been possible only because we had a large backlog of scientific data accumulated through basic research in many scientific fields in the years before the war.”

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

After World War II, noted scientists as Vannevar Bush helped to establish a model linking the usefulness of science to socioeconomic progress through the consortium of private firm, academic, and government institutions.

Jack Buffington: What Do We Mean When We Assert That Our Economic Salvation Is 'Innovation?' 2010

After World War II, noted scientists as Vannevar Bush helped to establish a model linking the usefulness of science to socioeconomic progress through the consortium of private firm, academic, and government institutions.

Jack Buffington: What Do We Mean When We Assert That Our Economic Salvation Is 'Innovation?' Jack Buffington 2010

Cage was aware of research conducted in the late 1930s and 1940s by Wiener, Shannon, Vannevar Bush, Warren McCulloch, and John von Neumann, who were all present at the creation of cybernetic theory.

John Brockman: The Edge Annual Question 2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? 2010

In the winter of 1945, Vannevar Bush had written to President Roosevelt, “The striking advances in medicine during the war have been possible only because we had a large backlog of scientific data accumulated through basic research in many scientific fields in the years before the war.”

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

He was asked by Vannevar Bush, one of the scientific overseers, to help on a specific problem involving the separation of isotopes that shared chemical traits.

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009