Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 11, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 14:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)



Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American engineer, inventor, science administrator, policymaker and public intellectual. He is best known 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. He became Vice President of MIT and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938. He was chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). During World War II he was director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), coordinating the defense activities of some 6,000 leading American scientists. As head of NDRC and OSRD, he initiated the Manhattan Project, and ensured that it received top priority from the highest levels of government. In 1945, he published As We May Think in which he predicted that "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them". This influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from his vision.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Last engineer to appear was Norman Selfe, on 10 December 2012
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 * Promoted: 15 June 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: 125th anniversary of his birth on 11 March 2015
 * Support as nominator. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - interesting article.--BabbaQ (talk) 10:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Tweak per this. Looks good. - Dank (push to talk) 23:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Source link on the image is dead. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Updated on Commons. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:15, 14 February 2015 (UTC)