From Memex to Hypertext (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780125232708)

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 software to bush's ideas and Memex.

Author: James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn
ISBN-10: 0125232705
ISBN-13: 9780125232708
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 12/17/1991
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.36w x 1.13d