Vannevar Bush, every mention
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Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:37:36 Marc Andreessen And so it's like, okay, any, and then, and then, you know, the argument, you know, the, the modern research university, it was constructed, the, the research part of it was constructed originally by Vannevar Bush and his peers.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 52:09 Marc Andreessen Particularly the American research university is heavily based on, uh, the thinking of, uh, of a guy named Vannevar Bush, um, who was, uh, famously, uh, FDR. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 35:28 Safi Bahcall Vannevar Bush came in, told FDR, he said, we're going to lose this war. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Vijay Pande Bush, in his famous memo right after World War II, defined what basic research is.
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker He was also an architect of the digital age who, among other things, worked with Vannevar Bush and befriended Alan Turing.
- ▶ 6:39 Rob Goodman Uh, and it says, uh, come to MIT and, uh, work as a graduate student, uh, with, uh, Vannevar Bush and the differential analyzer, which is, uh, one of the leading computing machines of the day. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Steven Sinofsky Just building on this, Bush was building essentially these analog purpose-built machines to solve problems, and it's really hard for us to wrap our heads around what was going on, but it was sort of like, if you want to track the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Rob Goodman So after he's done this amazing piece of work in the area of switching and logic, Bush says to him, why don't you go write your dissertation on theoretical genetics now?
- ▶ 20:02 Jimmy Soni Yeah, he actually wrote a note to, uh, to Vannevar Bush, uh, first, uh,
- ▶ 23:46 Rob Goodman Um, who is sort of a science popularizer, and he's also someone who's very, uh, uh, like Bush, he probably doesn't describe himself as having a first-rate scientific mind, but he's someone who loves literature.