William Carlos Williams. 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. 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. 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. Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. Early life and work[edit] World War II period[edit] John Seely Brown: Chief of Confusion. Home. Ed Begley Jr.: Community Colleges and the Green Economy. I am a proud alumnus of Los Angeles Valley College, one of the nation's 1,200 community colleges. Last week President Obama praised community colleges as "the unsung heroes of America's education system," critical to our success in the "global competition to lead in the growth industries of the 21st century.
" That seems a tall order for schools that, as the president acknowledged, don't often get the same resources as four-year colleges and universities, even though they educate nearly half the student population -- some 12 million students -- each year. How can they meet the challenge, and where are they going to get the resources to do so? Here's how they did it in The Dalles, Oregon, a small town at the center of farm country 90 miles east of Portland. Renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building, sustainable manufacturing -- these are the growth industries the president referred to when he said "we will not keep those jobs on our shores without community colleges. " SEED - Sustainability Education & Economic Development. EcoAmericans are everywhere | ecoAmerica. Simple small business software, collaboration, CRM: 37signals.
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