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Shortly before he died, Franklin Roosevelt asked Dr. Vannevar Bush to blueprint a new deal for U.S. science. Last week the chief of the wartime scientific high command dropped his blueprint on President Truman's desk. The plan, drafted by Dr. Bush and four committees composed of leading U.S. scientists, would require the Federal Government to spend some $122,500,000 a year to support basic scientific research and the education of young scientists...
Modern machines can already see, hear, smell and calculate-and one day they may begin to think. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of Office of Scientific Research and Development, believes that a "thinking" machine (of limited intellectual capabilities) can be built. In the July Atlantic Monthly, he predicts a brain robot that will relieve man of much of the routine spadework of thinking. The machine he envisages is an electronic and photographic contraption which would store facts for ready recall, sort a man's ideas, even organize them logically...
Among other. things, onrushing Allied armies have been capturing a good deal of topnotch German technical equipment. Last week Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD told how U.S. ingenuity had put some of this equipment to use in spite of Nazi effort to sabotage...
...spite of severe shortages of strategic metals; the Germans have been doing it for five years. The Japs are not troubled by the problem; they have plenty of strategic metals. These hard facts were reported last week by U.S. metallurgists who have analyzed captured enemy war materiel for Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD...
...Harvard's Associate Professor (now Commander) Howard H. Aiken, with the assistance of engineers of International Business Machines Corp., which built the machine and presented it to Harvard last week. Its calculating versatility is much greater than that of the even more complicated differential analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and associates at M.I.T. (TIME, Nov. 29), which merely solves intricate differential equations...