A distinguished engineer, Dean of MIT's School of Engineering, President of the Carnegie Institution, Director of the Office of Scientific Research during WW II, and author of
As We May Think an article in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
Bush described an invention he called the memex - which Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson and Andy van Dam cite as inspiration for the first hypertext systems which they built from the 1960's through 1980's. Like Everything, and the human mind, the memex works by association.