Information and Secrecy : Vannevar Bush, by Colin Burke & Michael Buckland; VG++

Description: Very Good++; Hardcover; Very light wear to the covers with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Tan cloth covers with title in gold lettering on a blue background; 1994, Scarecrow Press; 466 pages; "Information and Secrecy : Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex," by Colin Burke & Michael Buckland. Seller Background: We are a small, online bookseller based out of Bellingham, WA specializing in modern rare and out-of-print titles. We have been active in the book trade for over ten years and have been an active Ebay member since 2002. All of our books are carefully cleaned and restored to the best possible condition prior to being offered for sale. Our books are graded conservatively with ex-library books never graded above "Good" and used books very rarely graded above "Very Good". Domestic Shipping Notes: Orders placed with "Standard Shipping" ship by USPS Media Mail. Orders placed with "Expedited Shipping" ship by USPS Priority Mail. Especially high-value orders may ship by UPS. International Shipping Notes: International orders ship exclusively through the Ebay Global Shipping program. The shipping rates for this program are calculated by Ebay and paid to Ebays shipping company (Pitney Bowes). Shipments through the Ebay Global Shipping program are fully trackable with non-delivery and damage claims handled direclty by Ebay customer service. Return Policy: We accept returns for any reason as long as we are notified of your intent to return within two weeks of the date of receipt. The buyer is responsible for return shipping on all discretionary returns. If the return is due to an error in our description or from damage caused by the shipping carrier we will reimburse all shipping costs paid by the buyer. Book Info: Written for the general reader, Burkes volume provides the first view of the relationships among Americas librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they created information science, computerized codebreaking, and the modern research university. Using hundreds of primary and secret documents and more than twenty illustrations to trace the careers of Vannevar Bush of MIT and the navys codebreaking agency, OP-20-G, Burke shows how the lack of coherent American science and intelligence policies led to the tangled lives of two proto-computers that were the worlds first electronic data-processing machines. The histories of Bushs Memex-like microfilm Rapid Selector for the American Documentalists and his Comparator for those who created the nations Ultra Bombe and RAM machines began in the early 1930s and suffered through a generation of struggles with intransigent technologies, policy conflicts with the British over the control of signals-intelligence and the unwillingness of America to develop information and intelligence technologies until the Cold War turned to science and the library to fulfill defense needs.

Now, as the United States is on the verge of investing billions of dollars in information highways while reducing its intelligence capabilities, the tragedy of Bushs machines warns against information scientists putting technology ahead of logic and of the dangers of the nation returning to isolationism. Indexed and with extensive endnotes which serve the bibliographic function. Inventory #: SKU-366AF01812111

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