[SIGCIS-Members] What inspired Bush's Memex?

[Evan Koblentz]

I knew Murray and interviewed him a few years ago:

https://news.njit.edu/njit-research-1970s-became-vital-parts-todays-social-media-recipe

Sadly, he passed away last month, but most if not all of his work is 
archived on NJIT websites.



On 11/16/22 12:49 PM, LO*OP CENTER, INC. wrote:
> Hi Evan,
>
> I assume you've been in touch with Murray Turroff. Here's one of his 
> papers just in case you don't have it. 
> http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1016.pdf. I have several others in 
> the History of Computing in Learning and Education archive. Check out 
> hcle.org <http://hcle.org> for a small sample of the documents I'm 
> trying to scan and make accessible.
>
> By the way, there's no way I can finish the HCLE project by myself in 
> the time I have left on this earth. If any of you readers are 
> interested in researching and documenting how computing and education 
> have intersected between 1960 and 1990, please contact me. I have at 
> least 50 potential dissertations sitting in storage.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Liza
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 8:36 AM Evan Koblentz via Members 
> <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
>
>     Thanks everyone for the great suggestions! Tonight I'm teaching my
>     students about the origins of graphical interfaces, and realized
>     that I didn't have a good answer ready to the question of, "But
>     what inspired Bush?"
>
>     I am quickly reading Smith, Googling about Otlet/Goldberg, and
>     running to our university library to get Burke's book.
>
>
>     On 11/15/22 9:56 PM, Koblentz, Evan wrote:
>>     Does anyone have documentation, or good theories, about how/where
>>     Vannevar Bush was inspired to develop his ideas for the
>>     speculative Memex? I know that he was privy to the latest
>>     computer developments, but how did he make the jump from
>>     plugboards and punch cards to a virtual encyclopedia and hypertext?
>     -- 
>     Evan Koblentz
>
>     New Jersey Institute of Technology
>     - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
>     - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
>
>     evank at njit.edu
>     (973) 596-3065
>     https://web.njit.edu/~evank
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> Liza Loop
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-- 
Evan Koblentz

New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing

evank at njit.edu
(973) 596-3065
https://web.njit.edu/~evank
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