Claude Elwood Shannon vs. Vannevar Bush
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Claude Elwood Shannon
1916 – 2001
"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a wa…"
Vannevar Bush
1890 – 1974
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.
"All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexi…"
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