Mining the web
The book "Mining the Web" just arrived today. The book received very nice reviews on amazon.com. I once borrowed the book from school library, but never got chance to read it thoroughly.
After I finished the first chapter, I noticed the existing Web closely resembles "Memex", which was a brain child of Vannevar Bush more than 60 years ago. Amazing, isn't? Why people don't consider Mr. Bush as "Father of Web"? Electronic computer appeared after "Turing machine" was created, but Turing was still considered as "Father of the Computer Science". I think probably Vannevar Bush only proposed the concept, but didn't get into the detailed mechanism of "Memex".
I will read his classic "As We may Think" in few days.
After I finished the first chapter, I noticed the existing Web closely resembles "Memex", which was a brain child of Vannevar Bush more than 60 years ago. Amazing, isn't? Why people don't consider Mr. Bush as "Father of Web"? Electronic computer appeared after "Turing machine" was created, but Turing was still considered as "Father of the Computer Science". I think probably Vannevar Bush only proposed the concept, but didn't get into the detailed mechanism of "Memex".
I will read his classic "As We may Think" in few days.
posted by xinlinyc at 11:40 PM
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