Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890–June 30, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and politician, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex —seen as a pioneering concept for the world wide web. He was allegedly a member of the secret committee Majestic 12 investigating UFO activities.

References

• Buckland, Michael K. "Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex". Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43, no. 4 (May 1992): 284-294
• Nyce, James M.; Kahn, Paul (edd.) "From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush an the Mind's Machine". San Diego, London (...) 1991.