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Engelbart and the ABC Model

The Unfinished Revolution

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jitendra mudhol
May 29, 2023
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Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart

Vannevar Bush was an inventor, mathematician, and engineer, and during World War II, managed a slew of 6000 scientists with a budget of 3 million a week at the US Office of Scientific Research and Development. At MIT, he created the first analog computer to solve differential equations with up to 18 variables.

In 1945, he wrote an articl…

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