(Artificial Intelligence - Atomic Bomb) Endless Horizons Author: Bush, Vannevar Place Published: Washington D.C. Publisher: Public Affairs Press Date Published: 1946 Description: 182 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Also included: Printed document of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, certifying that R.C.Gilbert "has participated in work…contributing to the successful prosecution of the Second World War", 8x10½", undated, c.1945, signed in facsimile by Bush and James B. Conant, Harvard President and chair of the National Defense Research Committee. An Electric Thinker. Literary Digest, December 17, 1927, pg. 25. On the “mechanical mind” produced by Bush and his team at the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT. Anthology with first book appearance of important Bush writings, and two ephemeral items relating to Bush's accomplishments from 1927 to 1946. As Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research Development during World War II, Bush’s 1945 Report to President Roosevelt (“Science, The Endless Frontier”), set the stage for American scientific postwar research and development. The 1946 collection of his writings, Endless Horizons, incudes the first appearance in book form of six sections of that report, (first published as a government document in July 1945), as well as the first book appearance of “As We May Think” (first published in Atlantic Monthly), a visionary essay about the potential for machine information technology, influential in the modern history of computers and artificial intelligence. Bush had begun to lay the groundwork for the IT and AI future twenty years earlier by his groundbreaking work at MIT. Condition: Horizontal cut to top of first several leaves of Electric Thinker; overall very good. Item#: 347024a Headline: items by and about father of American scientific research
(Artificial Intelligence - Atomic Bomb) Endless Horizons Author: Bush, Vannevar Place Published: Washington D.C. Publisher: Public Affairs Press Date Published: 1946 Description: 182 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Also included: Printed document of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, certifying that R.C.Gilbert "has participated in work…contributing to the successful prosecution of the Second World War", 8x10½", undated, c.1945, signed in facsimile by Bush and James B. Conant, Harvard President and chair of the National Defense Research Committee. An Electric Thinker. Literary Digest, December 17, 1927, pg. 25. On the “mechanical mind” produced by Bush and his team at the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT. Anthology with first book appearance of important Bush writings, and two ephemeral items relating to Bush's accomplishments from 1927 to 1946. As Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research Development during World War II, Bush’s 1945 Report to President Roosevelt (“Science, The Endless Frontier”), set the stage for American scientific postwar research and development. The 1946 collection of his writings, Endless Horizons, incudes the first appearance in book form of six sections of that report, (first published as a government document in July 1945), as well as the first book appearance of “As We May Think” (first published in Atlantic Monthly), a visionary essay about the potential for machine information technology, influential in the modern history of computers and artificial intelligence. Bush had begun to lay the groundwork for the IT and AI future twenty years earlier by his groundbreaking work at MIT. Condition: Horizontal cut to top of first several leaves of Electric Thinker; overall very good. Item#: 347024a Headline: items by and about father of American scientific research
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