Vannevar Bush is an American engineer, scientific adviser of the president Roosevelt and researcher with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT). It is especially known as being one of the pioneers of Internet, through in particular its article “ As We May Think ” (1945) in which it anticipates the invention of the Hypertexte and which since reached notoriety. In this article, published in the review Atlantic Monthly, it describes a system, called Memex, kind of extension of the memory of the man. This text provided the foundations of what it is necessary well to call a Ordinateur and a Réseau. There it was a question of being able to store books, personal notes, ideas and capacity to associate them between them to find them easily. It evoked already the concepts of bonds and course by taking for model operation by association of the human Cerveau and proposed to implement a similar mechanism for the management of the documents of its system. He is also the inventor of a differential analyzer .

Biography

Born on March 11th, 1890 in Everett (Massachusetts), it supports its control in 1913. Responsible for the inspections of the material of the US Navy between 1914 and 1915, it obtains a doctorate with MIT and Harvard between 1916 and 1917. In 1919, it integrates the Electric department of Engineering of MIT to which it will belong twenty-five years during. In 1927, he is the Co-inventor of the “differential analyzer”, resolvent computer of the simple equations and devotes himself consequently to the optical apparatuses like with the automated treatment of the microfilms. He was freemason.

In 1932, Dr. Bush is named senior of the Institute, then president of the Carnegie Institute off Technology , (now Carnegie Mellon University , cf Andrew Carnegie) and holder of a pulpit to NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , national advisory committee on aeronautics and ancestor of NASA) in 1938. It is at that time that the American State calls upon him to reorganize various governmental dispensaries. In 1940, it is in particular charged with the organization of the news NDRC ( National Defense Research Committee ) wanted by the Council of National defense and the president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The goal of NDRC was mainly the design of new technological weapons. Eminent scientists were employed there like Nikola Tesla and Dr. Edward Condon, which will be charged to make conceal the rumors and to conclude scientifically with the non-viability of the study of the phenomenon UFO. It will be made mention more before these two characters who are closely associated with the Ufologie. In 1947 NDRC will be dissolved at the same time as the OSRD ( Office off Scientific Research and Development ), of which he was since June 1940 integral part by executive order.

In 1941, Dr. Bush takes the head of very OSRD and becomes the project superintendent of the scientific research of the America in war, with important manpower, approximately 6000 scientists. He will be one of the thinking heads of the “Projet Manhattan” which will confer the atomic weapon on the the United States.

In the month of July 1946, Bush is named director of JRDB ( Joint Research and Development Board ) of the departments of the war and the marine. This organization off depended on the Department Defense and endeavoured to coordinate and the development research tasks of the various weapons. It is within this organization that it would have met Lloyd Viel Berkner, and would have proposed to him to integrate the hypothetical agency Majestic 12. From September 1947 in October 1948, it off directs the Development Board the National Military Establishment before being named in 1948 with the head of the firm AT&T, then of Merck & Co. Director since 1950 of the NSF ( the National Science Foundation ), which proposed “to promote the advance of science; to make evolve/move health, prosperity and public welfare; and to make safe the National defense” and of which there will remain member until 1955, he is president of MIT Corporation of 1957 to 1959 then honorary president until 1971. Vannevar Bush dies in 1974.