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Information and secrecy : Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the other Memex
- Title
- Information and secrecy : Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the other Memex / Colin Burke ; with a foreword by Michael Buckland.
- Author
- Burke, Colin B., 1936-
- Publication
- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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- Description
- xxvi, 466 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. I. Introduction and Overview: The Age of Information and Secrecy -- Ch. II. An Institution and a Man for American Technology -- Ch. III. A Man for Technology and the Navy -- Ch. IV. Little Science, Big Corporations and the Calculation Problem -- Ch. V. Little Libraries and Little Science: The Information Problem -- Ch. VI. Machines for Secrecy: Perhaps -- Ch. VII. The Machine That Wouldn't: The Comparator -- Ch. VIII. The Next Machine That Wouldn't: The Other Memex -- Ch. IX. Disorganizing for War: The Comparator Fails, Again -- Ch. X. Microfilm Not at War -- Ch. XI. Back to Electromechanics: Ultra and the Bombe -- Ch. XII. Beyond the Bombe: Back to Hooper's Dream -- Ch. XIII. The Postwar Trauma: The Reappearance of the Other Memex -- Ch. XIV. A Machine for the Cold War and Big Science: Not for the Library.
- ISBN
- 0810827832 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 93039656
- OCLC
- 29184697
- ocm29184697
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries