TY - JOUR
AU - Colin Burke
AB - Presents an historical overview of Vannevar Bush's efforts to develop a machine for free-form indexing and computerized information retrieval. Envisioned as a way for scholars and librarians to deal with information overload, the devices were instead used for business and cryptanalysis purposes.
BT - Journal of the American Society for Information Science
IS - December
LA - English
N2 - Presents an historical overview of Vannevar Bush's efforts to develop a machine for free-form indexing and computerized information retrieval. Envisioned as a way for scholars and librarians to deal with information overload, the devices were instead used for business and cryptanalysis purposes.
PY - 1992
SP - 648
EP - 657
T2 - Journal of the American Society for Information Science
TI - The Other Memex: The Tangled Career of Vannevar Bush's Information Machine, The Rapid Selector
VL - 43
ER -