Memex [memory expansion] is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article...
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Vannevar Bush (section Memex concept)
particularly for his engineering work on analog computers, and for the memex. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, a mechanical...
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Search engine (computing) (section The Memex)
essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. All of the documents used in the memex would be in the form...
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Vertical search (redirect from DARPA's Memex program)
of the "Memex program", which aims at developing new search technologies overcoming some limitations of text-based search. DARPA wants the Memex technology...
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We May Think", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex. A Memex would hypothetically store — and record — content on reels of microfilm...
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desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help...
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History of hypertext (section The Memex)
Monthly called "As We May Think", about a futuristic device he called a Memex. He described the device as an electromechanical desk linked to an extensive...
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in The Atlantic Monthly magazine under the title "As We May Think." The Memex article in The Atlantic is most often cited because of its longer text which...
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and lack of investment. Charles S. Smith, the founder of a company called Memex (named after a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush), hired many of...
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Vannevar Bush. In the essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine (the Memex) in which one could link any two pages of information into a "trail" of...
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