Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and science administrator who is best known for conceptualizing the memex, a hypothetical device for storing and retrieving information that anticipated personal computing and the internet. He developed the differential analyzer, an early analog computer, co-founded the Raytheon Company, and during World War II headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development, coordinating the work of some 30,000 scientists and engineers. His 1945 essay "As We May Think," in which he described the memex, is widely regarded as a foundational text in the history of information science.