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Vannevar Bush
KindPerson
Born1890
Died1974
StatusDead
FieldEngineering
Sourcewww.theatlantic.com ↗

MIT dean and wartime science administrator � his 1945 'As We May Think' essay described the Memex and effectively commissioned hypertext.

Created As We May Think

MIT dean, wartime science administrator, and author of 'As We May Think' (1945) — the Memex essay that imagined hypertext, personal information machines, and 'associative trails' decades before the web.\n\nThe founding document of human-computer interaction; Engelbart and Nelson both credit it.

Sources

  1. theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush