Monday, 1 August 2011
How IBM is digitizing the world's text
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
The idea of digitizing all books and making them available on electronic libraries can be traced back to 1945, when Dr. Vannevar Bush wrote "As we may think" in the July issue of The Atlantic. His visionary description of an information centric application called "memex" influenced the development of the hypertext concept and the Internet. And projects in the 1970s – such as Michael Hart's
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