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

[Johannah Rodgers]

Thanks everyone for this information!

All best,

Johannah

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:17 PM Evan Koblentz via Members
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> Oops - I should have opened your link before sharing my own article. I wasn't aware that Turoff even knew about Bush/Memex, let alone that he wrote about it, in the context of EIES. Shame on me, for not seeing the connection!
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> On 11/16/22 1:04 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
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> I knew Murray and interviewed him a few years ago:
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> https://news.njit.edu/njit-research-1970s-became-vital-parts-todays-social-media-recipe
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> Sadly, he passed away last month, but most if not all of his work is archived on NJIT websites.
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> On 11/16/22 12:49 PM, LO*OP CENTER, INC. wrote:
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> Hi Evan,
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> 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 for a small sample of the documents I'm trying to scan and make accessible.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Liza
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> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 8:36 AM Evan Koblentz via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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>> 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?"
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>> I am quickly reading Smith, Googling about Otlet/Goldberg, and running to our university library to get Burke's book.
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>> On 11/15/22 9:56 PM, Koblentz, Evan wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Evan Koblentz
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>> New Jersey Institute of Technology
>> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
>> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
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>> evank at njit.edu
>> (973) 596-3065
>> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
>> @TechnicallyEvan
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> Evan Koblentz
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> New Jersey Institute of Technology
> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
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> evank at njit.edu
> (973) 596-3065
> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
> @TechnicallyEvan
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> Evan Koblentz
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> New Jersey Institute of Technology
> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
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> evank at njit.edu
> (973) 596-3065
> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
> @TechnicallyEvan
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