Van Neva Bush published a memory expansion program in 1945-MEMEX, which can display information stored on microfilm on a translucent screen. What he envisioned is this information compression and fast reading technology. Bush, who directed the “Manhattan Project” nuclear test, laid the foundation for current multimedia technology before the birth of computers. Bush’s Memex never…
Clement Mok
Clement Mok is many things—digital pioneer, serial entrepreneur, software publisher, and developer, author, design patent holder, even restaurateur—but beyond all else, Mok is a designer and his influence on the world is immeasurable. After graduating from ArtCenter’s Graphic Design program, he held design positions at CBS (then the number-one network) and design agency Donovan/Green. Thanks…
Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician whose career took shape from her work in analytic support in wartime. She was also the developer of the first compiler, a contributor to the program language COBOL, and later the developer of one of its progenitors. Her experience and philosophy have a huge impact on…
Idea From a True Pioneer
In the year of 1945, Vannevar Bush envisioned a pre-hypertext system or a machine named Memex in his article, As We May Think. Even though the Memex idea might not be so shocking and mind-blowing at the time it came out, it probably highly influenced the Internet and search engines that were invented decades later. …
Principles that sustained – From Bauhaus to Adobe XD
The teaching approaches of the Bauhaus is revolutionary. They let students thoroughly examine the basic elements of design in order to internalize them for later use. The idea is all designs should come from three elementary forms: square, triangle, and circle. To believe or not, we are still using that exact same principle to create…
Vannevar Bush – Machine to Human Mind
In Vannevar Bush’s essay “As We May Think” published in 1945, Bush depicted a hypothetical machine called the Memex. We can see many overlaps between Bush’s early picture of the Memex and our modern information-sharing model. Bush’s vision introduced a brand new way of accessing information. And his innovative idea behind the name was a revolution,…