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| | Memex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The "memex" was a theoretical analog computer described by the scientist and engineer Vannevar Bush in the 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think". | | | The memex as proposed by Bush could only create links between a pair of microfilm frames, but it could not create links in the modern sense where a hyperlink can be based on a single word, phrase or picture within a document. | | | As observers like Tim Oren have pointed out, the memex could be considered to be a microfilm-based precursor to the personal computer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
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| | Memex |
| | MemexSim The Memex Simulator is an open source project, implementing Vannevar Bush's concept of an automated information retrieval mechanism. | | | Memex Servizi Internet: realizzazione siti, e-commerce, registrazione domini e spazio Web. | | | Memex [Potenza] Servizi Internet: realizzazione siti, e-commerce, registrazione domini e spazio Web. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Memex.html
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| | The Memex was to be a desktop microfilm storage and retrieval system, also called the Rapid Selector. | | | A precursor concept to the modern personal computer and hypertext, first envisioned by Vannevar Bush (1850 - 1974) in his ground-breaking 1945 essay "As We May Think". |
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http://www.homoexcelsior.com/omega.db/datum/computer_science/memex/8683
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| | MemexSim: The Memex Simulator |
| | This project, the Memex Simulator, examines the ideas of the Memex and implements them as faithfully to Doctor Bush's original specifications as is possible given the small amount of information available on the as-of-yet unrealized physical design. | | | Because of the prohibitive complexity and cost of film and hardware for a device such as the Memex, this project uses modern software and computer hardware in the place of film, projectors, and analog mechanical controls. | | | The Memex design was caught in a unique moment after the realization that science was poised to provide radical tools for thought but before the startling scale up of cheap digital electronic computational devices. |
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http://memexsim.sourceforge.net
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| | MIT: Memex Animation |
| | The Memex was more than a microfilm filing system. | | | Additional details on the components of the Memex were built into a point-and-click interface that a user can access before or after viewing the movie. | | | By manipulating a three dimensional computer model of the Memex with animation software, we could show levers being moved, indexing keys being pressed, and screens presenting content. |
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http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/case_studies/mit_memex.html
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| | Using Memex to archive and mine \\community Web browsing experience |
| | Memex is a large project involving hypertext data mining, browser plug-in and applet design, servlets and associated distributed database architecture, and user interfaces. | | | We prefer not to assign the role of the Memex server to the proxy or firewall computer. | | | Memex blurs the artificial distinction between browsing history and deliberate bookmarks. |
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http://www.www9.org/w9cdrom/98/98.html
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| | LAS, Memex Team up To Enhance Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism Tools; Criminal intelligence software leader adds ... |
| | Memex has developed a solution that increases both the depth (supporting more and more in-house data sources) and breadth (sharing information with other agencies, third parties and accessing open sources) of intelligence information, allowing police officers to input, develop, evaluate and disseminate data, and cross reference that data to find patterns of criminal activity. | | | Memex technology and expertise has a wide variety of users in the criminal intelligence, defense intelligence and commercial fraud sectors, and Memex's core search and analysis technology, the Memex Intelligence Engine, is in use at U.S. Department of Defense sites worldwide as part of the Pathfinder program. | | | Memex was founded in 1979 and has since grown to become a world leader in intelligence software. |
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Apr/1035521.htm
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| | The Daily Record - NEWS - SCOTS AT CUTTING EDGE OF WAR ON COCAINE |
| | Lanarkshire-based Memex are linking the Metropolitan Police and cops in Jamaica thanks to an advanced computer system. | | | Memex managing director David Carrick said: "Our close links with the Metropolitan Police and the successful use of our software in Operation Trident has led to the new work in Jamaica. | | | Memex computer programmers started working with Scotland Yard during Operation Trident, which targeted gun crime connected to the drug trade. |
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11995634&method=full&sit
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| | CS 378 Week 7 - Proposal: From the Memex to HTML |
| | Most computing devices before the memex and many before the advent of hypertext were targeted to perform specific tasks or to be used in certain industries with a finite scope. | | | A conceptual advancement of the magnitude of the memex and its link the development of hypertext deserves further research. | | | Hypertext is more conceptual and is implemented via programming languages rather than by being built into a stand-alone machine. |
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chadw/cs378/prop.html
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| | Memex |
| | In other essays (“Memex II”, 1958, “Science Pauses”, 1965, “Memex revisited”, 1965, not all of which were published), however, the reference to concrete technologies becomes increasingly weak, leaving more room for general reflections on mental processes and the way technology could help them. | | | Seen from our vantage point today the Memex was, basically, a complicated analogue computer. | | | In 1948, on the other hand, the Eniac was built, the first true digital computer, and Bush’s ideas were soon forgotten by everyone except for a few technology historians. |
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http://www.aedo-to.com/eng/inspiration/future/realizzati/01/art01.html
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| | Dennis G. Jerz: On the Trail of the Memex. Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy |
| | The design of the memex imitated the workings of the human memory on a scale that promised to make the user utterly dependent upon its workings (as most professionals of today are, practically speaking, utterly dependent upon their personal computers). | | | X is a variable, an unknown quantity, the undiscovered country; it differentiates memex from meme – a discrete bit of cultural information, such as a folktale or an advertising jingle, that perpetuates itself by jumping from mind to mind. | | | Second, the operation of the memex is tied to the physical presence of texts – a stack of densely-printed microfilms, which can be sorted and displayed quickly, but which must first be printed and distributed to a paying researcher. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2003/issue/1/jerz
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| | Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex |
| | The Memex is usually viewed, unhistorically, in relation to subsequent developments using digital computers. | | | The Memex was based on Bush's work during 1938-1940 developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector, an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg of Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, in the 1920s. | | | The literature on documentation in the 1930's was as preoccupied with microfilm technology as it is now with computer technology and for the same reason, each being the most promising information retrieval technology of the time. |
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http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldbush.html
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| | Nerds 2.0.1 - On the Radar Scope |
| | He described the memex as a desk and camera that could record anything a user wrote and then link it to other pieces of information indexed in its storage space. | | | Therefore, the memex would index everything with associative links and pieces of information that could be retrieved through paths of logical connections. | | | He called this machine a memex, because its purpose was to augment human memory. |
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http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/networking_nerds/radar.html
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| | WebDAV and Lessons from Blackfoot Physics |
| | Memex was a short form for memory extension and I can see the wampum belt having a similar purpose, but V. Bush was interested in bringing information to the researcher and I sense your focus is more sharing information outward. | | | The proxy needs to be able to parcel up the content to flow in multiple directions in addition to storing it in a database or other alternative storage and indexing mechanisms. | | | Technically, some of the above solutions might already be considered proxying solutions, and with Lenya at least, it is possible to insert some custom layers in the process, but this is where the memex connection starts to gain traction, and why the proxy support has to be incredibly flexible. |
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http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca/1077044415
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| | MemexSim: The Memex Simulator: Design |
| | In combination with a small analog electronics package, the Memex store can scan through any of the rolls while providing a series of snapshots to the user of what is being scanned. | | | There is a lot of discourse on the topic of information flow and the merits of categories, but the mission of this project is to implement the Memex as defined by Dr. Bush. | | | The technical process will support modern methods of file sharing over the web, including defining a MIME type for trails and coding the Simulator to act as a media handler for the new MIME type so that they can be referenced by URL in web pages. |
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http://memexsim.sourceforge.net/design.html
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| | Google's Memory Upgrade - How Blogger could do more than improve Google's Web searches. By Steven Johnson |
| | Bush imagined the Memex as a machine of connected documents that from one angle looks a great deal like the modern, Web-enabled computer. | | | Bush's imaginary device, called the Memex, would help manage the ever-accelerating explosion of information in the world. | | | If Google went in this direction with the Blogger acquisition, it would hearken back to one of the seminal documents of the computing age: Vannevar Bush's 1946 "As We May Think" essay, which envisioned a new tool to augment human memory. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2079747
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| | Memex know-how adding inches to long arm of the law - [Sunday Herald] |
| | This software is the result of more than 15 years of continuous development effort and perhaps represents one of the most flexible search engines available for intelligence purposes. | | | The East Kilbride-based developer of criminal intelligence software has spent the last two decades establishing its reputation in this area and now has a track record that is the envy of many larger players. | | | It already has the FBI and the Met on its books, now criminal intelligence software vendor, Memex, says it aims to snare a few more good guys, reports Darran Gardner |
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http://www.sundayherald.com/25393
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| | Memex Software Inc. |
| | Memex Software has developed innovative, award-winning solutions for the mid-sized businesses and emerging enterprises. | | | Memex Software, Inc. specializes in providing professional knowledge management solutions and tools. | | | Memex Software Inc. supports Knowledge Island foundation ! |
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http://www.memex-software.com
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| | Memex Memory Engine, CNC Parts, Fanuc, GEFANUC. |
| | Memex is pleased to offer you a cost-effective, trouble-free answer to your Fanuc memory problems: the Memex Memory Engine (MME) Boards for the Series 6, 9, 11, and 12. | | | Depend on Memex for flexible and innovative solutions to all your CNC problems. | | | Specializing in the production of memory upgrades for your GE Fanuc machine tool controls, Memex Electronics Inc. has the solution to your CNC memory needs. |
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http://www.cncparts.com/mme.htm
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| | Memex - Wikipedia |
| | Der Memex war demnach nicht nur eine Hypertext-Machine, sondern auch der mikrofilmbasierte Vorläufer des Personal Computers. | | | Bush war ein Pionier des Analog Computings (Analogrechner), folglich war sein Bild des Memex das eines elektromechanischen Gerätes. | | | 1, S. 101–108) in dem er sein fiktives System: „Memex“ (Memory Extender) vorstellte. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
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| | d2_memex |
| | Feels like your desktop is part of the Net, and your memex’s presentation frame, your “home” cyberspace, is a window running alongside everything else in your system. | | | Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. | | | Install the Google desktop, run a few searches infomed by your own sense of the themes, ideas, and images that preoccupy your hours at the keyboard, compare these with Googling the open Web for similar themes, ideas, and images, and comment on your findings either here or at home in your own blog. |
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http://d2blog.typepad.com/d2
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| | Memex FAQ |
| | At the moment the Memex applet can monitor only one window, the one where it was started. | | | Clustering is the automatic organisation of web pages into a heirarchial tree structure based on similarity of content. | | | Classifying is the automatic positioning of a web page in your bookmark folder structure. |
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http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~soumen/memex/faq.html
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| | Memex - Wikipedia |
| | Al memex fu ispirato NLS, un sistema software progettato da Douglas Engelbart e oggi considerato come il primo esempio di groupware, ovvero di sistema software esplicitamente dedicato al supporto per il lavoro cooperativo e la condivisione di informazioni. | | | Le sue caratteristiche e l'uso che Bush ne prevedeva, di tipo prevalentemente privato, individuale, ne fanno un antenato dell'odierno personal computer. | | | Il memex era un calcolatore analogico dotato di un sistema di archiviazione, ideato dallo scienziato e tecnologo statunitense Vannevar Bush negli anni Trenta e mai realizzato, da molti considerato il precursore del personal computer e degli ipertesti. |
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http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
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| | Is it Real or is it Memex |
| | I think that is a key piece of the puzzle, the hook to the desktop has to be seamless because extra steps can be a huge disincentive in maximizing the use of content after it is created. | | | I like the analogy between RSS and webdav, and we have a group that shares Word files (don't hate me, that is our common app). | | | WebDAV could even achieve the glow of RSS in this framework, RSS was around a long time before it became the focus of much of the web community, and WebDAV proxies may be an unobtrusive way of delivering content to much more than the web authoring tools it was originally intended for. |
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http://webvoy.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/1075838545
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| | Amazon.com: Books: From Memex To Hypertext, First Edition |
| | 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. | | | In the July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, he published a popular science article entitled "As We May Think." Bush discusses a device called a "memex", a sort of workstation with vast optical storage and mechanical information retrieval using associative indexing and "trails". |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0125232705?v=glance
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| | Memex |
| | Nearby terms: meme plague « memetic algorithm « memetics « Memex » memo function » memoisation » memoised function |
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http://www.linuxguruz.org/foldoc/foldoc.php?Memex
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| | MEGAMEMEX Timebased Chronographical Search Engine - Memex Timeline and Multimedia Archive - Timeline Free History ... |
| | Bush's main point - the primary reason for his Memex - was that having all the information in the world is useless if we have no way of efficiently archiving and quickly accessing it. | | | Bush's conception of the Memex popularized, for the first time, the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. | | | He also saw the ability to navigate the enormous amounts of data as a far more important development than futuristic hardware. |
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http://www.megamemex.com
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| | Codex, Memex, Genex: The Pursuit of Transformational Technologies |
| | The short paper on "Codex, Memex, Genex: The Pursuit of Transformational Technologies" is in the CHI98 Summary (pages 98-99) and the full paper will appear in the June issue of the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. | | | Genex is a framework for an integrated set of software tools that support creativity in science, medicine, the arts, and beyond. | | | This page is for Ben Shneiderman's Opening Plenary Address "Codex, Memex, Genex: The Pursuit of Transformational Technologies" at CHI98, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998. |
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/presentations/genex/index.shtml
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| | Secondary Literature |
| | The Windows version of the Memex Animation (2.5 Mb) requires a 486/33 or better, a 640 by 480 or larger monitor running at 256 colors, and a sound card. | | | It is a PKZIP file and will unzip to about 3.5 megabytes on your hard disk. | | | The Macintosh version of the Memex Animation (3 Mb) requires a 68030 or better, and a 640 by 480 or larger monitor running at 256 colors. |
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http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Secondary.html
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| | Memex and Beyond Web Site |
| | The Memex and Beyond web site is a major research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia. | | | For example, each entry in the people component contains links to the institutions, papers, and projects associated with that person. | | | Memex and Beyond is an outreach website of the NSF Graphics and Visualization Center, which is an NSF (National Science Foundation) Science and Technology Center. |
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http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex
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| | Memex Electronics: CNC Memory, Multi-DNC Software, CNC Communication, Multi DNC, CNC Editor, CNC Download Software, DNC ... |
| | Memex Electronics: CNC Memory, Multi-DNC Software, CNC Communication, Multi DNC, CNC Editor, CNC Download Software, DNC System, Behind-the-Tape Reader, BTR, Yasnac, Fanuc |
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| | Memex Users - tribe.net |
| | Home » Tribes » Computers and Internet » Memex Users » All Topics » Topic | | | I suppose I should have asked to see what was in storage. | | | Both of mine are functional and in use. |
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http://memex.tribe.net/thread/575f2f1b-458c-4a07-ad3d-0715c34e818a
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| | CTO : Memex |
| | These are slightly distorted versions of the original concepts, in light of the rather obvious turn of history which has brought "personal digital assistant" computers and the Internet to relatively-common cultural use. | | | , an attempt to simulate the memex machine ideas in desktop software. | | | CTO pages can be modified by anyone at anytime. |
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http://cliki.tunes.org/Memex
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| | Memex from FOLDOC |
| | Nearby terms: membership « meme « memetic algorithm « Memex » memory » Mendel Gregor » Mendelssohn Moses |
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http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Memex
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| | 3.2.1 Vannevar Bush's Memex (1945) |
| | It can be claimed that hypermedia, as well as Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Online Education, have their origins in Vannevar Bush's Memex (``memory extender''). | | | Although his system has never been implemented, it provided scientists with the basic ideas of modern hypermedia systems. | | | The Memex is a system to store any kind of information, both personal and common. |
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http://www.iicm.edu/liberation/library/reports/rp_feedback/n39/n41/n42
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| | Lazarus - Vannevar Bush - Memex Followers |
| | This should be easier on the Web than with the memex because the documents are being designed specifically for the Web. | | | The way I understand the Web, it works well with all sorts of media - even sound and video - and it should be easy to specifically design useful trails. | | | The whole idea of the memex was to allow people to organize and access information. |
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http://www.eserver.org/courses/s01/tc510/lazarus/Bush/bush7.html
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| | As We May Think and Memex: Future of the World Wide Web |
| | Bush proposed a machine - the Memex - that was part computer, part microfiche, part database, and an information retrieval system which bears an uncanny resemblance to today's hyperlinks. | | | In fact, had Bush been able to predict miniaturisation and the rapid expansion of telecommunication technology, his plans for a quickly, publicly accessible - almost ‘digital’ - library of information may well have been labelled the `Internet'. | | | review of From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine |
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http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bredshaw/memex.htm
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| | Scotsman.com Business - Top Stories - Memex continues to handcuff the US market |
| | Memex has proven time and again its value in finding that needle and managing the haystack - in ways few other intelligence systems can offer," said Robert Kim Wilson, chief executive officer of Memex in the US. | | | He added: "Our continuing relationship with law enforcement agencies in New Jersey has developed into a true partnership with a shared vision on how to successfully meet this goal." | | | The $750,000 Memex intelligence system was originally deployed within the NJSP organised crime and street gangs units in early 2001. |
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http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=646582005
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| | ALA Technology, Cluelessness, Anthropology, and the Memex |
| | Our challenge, then, is to move beyond tools such as UNO's Research Wizard to tools more like the memex. | | | Even at its best, the reference desk served the few rather than the many. | | | Since 1945 we have had a vision for a machine to provide this sort of service; that vision is embodied in Vannevar Bush's memex machine. |
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http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaprotools/futureofref/technologycluelessness.htm
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| | IT Conversations: Gordon Bell - MyLifeBits and the Memex Vision |
| | Within five years, our personal computers will be able to store everything we read, write, hear, and many of the images we see including a bit of video. | | | Full title: "MyLifeBits: The Memex Vision and Some Implications of Storing Everything Personal" | | | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
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http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail371.html
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| | MemEx, Memory Upgrades Australia, memory, computers, computer memory, memory upgrades, ram expansion, memory expansion, ... |
| | MemEx, Memory Upgrades Australia, memory, computers, computer memory, memory upgrades, ram expansion, memory expansion, ram extension, printer memory, notebook memory, camera memory, digital memory, ibm memory, compaq memory, Hewlett Packard memory, HP memory, Canon | | | Click "Memory Upgrades" above to search our database or simply click here to email the make and model number and we'll get back to you real soon. | | | Phone: +61 2 9362 0211 Fax: +61 2 93571416 |
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http://www.memex.com.au
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| | Memex - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Memex : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info] | | | Memex : FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Memex" is defined. |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Memex
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| | inIVA: veil season - Rokeby: MEMEX |
| | Through the MEMEX project, interactive artist Rokeby turns himself into an cyborg, equipped with a wearable computer, a digital camera, a portable brainwave monitor and a global positioning system tracking his precise geographical location. | | | Social, technological and scientific trends are converging to shape a new conception of what it means to be a human being. | | | Still images, video and electrical signals from his brain will be converted into music and broadcast in cyberspace, as a virtual manifestation of a physical pilgrimage. |
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http://www.iniva.org/season/veil/project_03
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| | Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality |
| | His contribution to the evolution of the computer ranges far and wide: from the invention in 1930 of the Differential Analyzer, one of the first automatic electronic computers, to his concept of the Memex, the prototypical hypermedia machine. | | | Vannevar Bush rose to prominence during World War II as chief scientific advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and director of the government's Office of Scientific Research and Development, where he supervised the research that led to the creation of the atomic bomb and other military technologies. | | | In 1945 the Atlantic Monthly invited Bush to contribute an article on this theme, and the result was the landmark essay, As We May Think. |
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http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Bush.html
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| | Web Design Services by Memex Web&Design Center |
| | Memex, along with client input, determines what the web site should contain. | | | Memex is a personalised website design and development company committed to providing your business with professional, cost effective web services, graphic design, web programming and mobile application programming. | | | Memex can undertake a wide range of subcontracts for these companies, including website design and web programming projects, the installation of MySQL databases, shopping carts, photo galleries, graphic design tasks. |
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http://www.memex.hu
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| | Memex definition of Memex in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Memex definition of Memex in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | Memex - Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Memex
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| | World Wide Web History Vannevar Bush & Memex |
| | Vannevar Bush was a scientist and inventor, and is known most for his creation of the first Differential Analyzer in 1931: a machine that could solve two third-order differential equations simultaneously. | | | While working on projects such as the Differential Analyzers, Bush became more interested in the same area Wells had in the 1930's: the overwhelming amount of academic information and literature that was being published. | | | Less known, and perhaps just as important, was Bush's plan for a device he called Memex. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mattkaz/history/memex.html
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| | Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974) |
| | Bush himself went on to invent the Rapid Selector, a microfilm storage and information retrieval device that he expanded - in theory, anyway - with his plans for the ‘Memex’ machine, a futuristic device that foreshadowed the modern computer and hypertext linking. | | | True, it was cumbersome, clumsy, and built at a time when mechanical machines were steadily giving way to electromechanical devices, but to anyone with a spark of poetry in their soul, this was one awe-inspiringly beautiful machine! | | | Vannevar Bush's first public exposition of his vision for the future, 'As We may Think', was published by the Atlantic Monthly in 1945. |
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http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/bush.htm
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| | Using the Memex (kottke.org) |
| | You have the easy linkability of web-based resources combined with a breadth and depth of scholarly discourse. | | | If you really want to be dazzled by a modern-day Memex, sit down at a reasonably well-funded university library with decent online collections. |
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http://www.kottke.org/03/07/using-the-memex
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