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Diagramme zu Daniel L. Schacters Buch "Wir sind Erinnerung" Interessantes Buch über das Gedächtnis mit seinen unterschiedlichen Arten, über den Ablauf von Erinnerungs-Kodierung und Abruf und mehr anhand von vielen Fallbeispielen über Hirnschädigungen, Amnesien, und auch persönlichen Erfahrungen. Systeme des Gedächtnis: echte und falsche Erinnerungen Erinnerungen kodieren und abrufen. Hypertext. Ted Nelson - Who invented Hypertext, Web History. Ted Nelson invented hypertext, the concept behind links on the web, influencing several developers of the Internet, most notably Tim Berners-Lee. Ted Nelson's mother was an actress, and his father was a director.

He went to Swarthmore College in the late 1950's, where he became a film maker. He then went to graduate school at the University of Chicago in 1959, followed by Harvard University in 1960, where he took a course in computer programming using an IBM 7090 computer and began to think about writing a document management system to index and organize his collection of notes. As he considered the design of this system, Nelson applied his experience as a filmmaker with the conception of complex motion picture effects, moving from one shot to another, and conceived of the idea of hypertext.

Mike Joyce's Ted Sed Page Nelson later popularized the hypertext concept in his book Literary Machines. Some of the organizations Nelson has worked with are listed below: Resources. Transliterature, A Humanist Design. Feature. The Curse of XanaduBy Gary Wolf It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the longest-running vaporware project in the history of computing - a 30-year saga of rabid prototyping and heart-slashing despair.

The amazing epic tragedy. I said a brief prayer as Ted Nelson - hypertext guru and design genius - took a scary left turn through the impolite traffic on Marin Boulevard in Sausalito. Nelson's left hand was on the wheel, his right rested casually on the back of the front seat. Nelson is a pale, angular, and energetic man who wears clothes with lots of pockets. Nelson's life is so full of unfinished projects that it might fairly be said to be built from them, much as lace is built from holes or Philip Johnson's glass house from windows.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. "Bush Symposium - ACM <i>Interactions</i> Article" ( Home )( Index )( Bibliography )( Archives )( Glossary )( Futures ) ( Feedback Interchange) The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium The ACM Interactions Article "50 Years After 'As We May Think': The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium" Authors: Rosemary Simpson, Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and Andries van Dam "50 Years After 'As We May Think': The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium" was published in the March 1996 issue of Interactions, a bimonthly publication of ACM. Abstract Introduction As We May Think Bush's Legacy in 1995 Augmentation Collaboration Co-Evolution The Future This paper gives a thematic view of the Vannevar Bush Symposium held at MIT on October 12-13, 1995 to honor the 50th anniversary of Bush's seminal paper, 'As We May Think'. [[This web site - Memex and Beyond - is the seed of that planned web site]] The symposium was designed as a 'posthumous Festschrift' - a research symposium in honor of Bush's vision.

Vannevar Bush. Vannevar Bush was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet. He died before the creation of the World Wide Web. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think. " In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations.

This associative linking was very similar to what is known today as hypertext. Indeed, Ted Nelson who later did pioneering work with hypertext credited Bush as his main influence (Zachary, 399). Others, such as J.C.R. In 1937, Bush became the president of the Carnegie Institution. "The owner of the memex let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow.

This system is remarkably similar to modern hypertext. Re-visiting and revising the famous Bushy Tree diagram of the lineage of visual computing systems. The Newly Inspired Bushy TreeA re-visiting and revising the famous Bushy Tree diagram of the lineage of visual interactive computing systems (click on many of the "leaves" to bring up associated web resources)

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