[IP] Re: On ARPA's 50th Anniversary

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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
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> 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
>
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