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1. Bush, Vannevar Bushnoun

   United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

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1. vannevar bush

   Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor, and science administrator known for his work during World War II, when he established and administered the U.S. wartime research agency known as the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). Bush also played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb and the analog computer. His concept of the "memex" in his 1945 essay "As We May Think" has been influential in the development of the World Wide Web. He was particularly focused on the role of government in fostering scientific and technological advancements.

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1. Vannevar Bush

   Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, whose most important contribution was as head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. His office was considered one of the key factors in winning the war. He is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web. In 1945, Bush published As We May Think in which he predicted that "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified". The memex influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from its vision of the future. For his master's thesis, Bush invented and patented a "profile tracer", a mapping device for assisting surveyors. It was the first of a string of inventions. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1919, and founded the company now known as Raytheon in 1922. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, an analog computer with some digital components that could solve differential equations with as many as 18 independent variables. An offshoot of the work at MIT by Bush and others was the beginning of digital circuit design theory. Bush became Vice President of MIT and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938.

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