From Memex to Hypertext

by Vannevar Bush, James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn

Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0125232705
• ISBN13: 9780125232708
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"