Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) 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 (OSRD) 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. For his master's thesis, Bush invented and patented a "profile tracer", a mapping device for assisting surveyors. Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. Early life and work[edit] Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood née Paine. In 1924, Bush and Marshall teamed up with physicist Charles G. World War II period[edit]

Douglas Engelbart In the early 1950s, he decided that instead of "having a steady job" (such as his position at NASA's Ames Research Center) he would focus on making the world a better place, especially through the use of computers. Engelbart was therefore a committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and computer networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems. Engelbart embedded a set of organizing principles in his lab, which he termed "bootstrapping strategy". He designed the strategy to accelerate the rate of innovation of his lab. In 1988, Engelbart and his daughter Christina launched the Bootstrap Institute (later known as The Doug Engelbart Institute) to promote his vision, especially at Stanford University; this effort did result in some DARPA funding to modernize the user interface of Augment. Early life and education[edit] Career and accomplishments[edit] Guiding philosophy[edit] SRI and the Augmentation Research Center[edit]

Ivan Sutherland Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938)[1] is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".[2] Biography[edit] Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), his Master's degree from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT in EECS in 1963. Sutherland replaced J. In 1968 he co-founded Evans and Sutherland with his friend and colleague David C. Awards[edit] Quotes[edit] Patents[edit]

Alan Kay He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. Until mid-2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] After 10 years at Xerox PARC, Kay became Atari's chief scientist for three years. Kay is also a former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer, and an amateur classical pipe organist. Early life and work[edit] Alan Kay showed remarkable ability at an early age, learning to read fluently at three years old. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, Kay attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Molecular Biology. In 1966, he began graduate school at the University of Utah College of Engineering, earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. degree.