Engelbart, Douglas Pioneers History
Engelbart, Douglas Pioneers History
Invented and lead development of groupware (SRI Augment system), word processing (display editing), outlining, hyperlinks, hyper-documents, graphical user interfaces, integrated text and graphics, windowing user interfaces (non-overlapping, tiled), two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces, the computer mouse, chording keyboards, and was director of Node 1 of the Internet (Node 0 was MIT). He is also a kind, gentle, soft spoken soul.
Top: Computers: History: Pioneers: Engelbart, Douglas
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Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart - At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
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Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University - Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
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Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS - Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution.
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National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart - Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
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A Chat with Doug Engelbart - From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove]
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Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker - By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
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Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies - Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics.
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Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution - Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today.
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Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution - History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog.
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The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart - Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
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Douglas Engelbart - Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
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MouseSite - Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
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The Man Behind the Mouse - Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek]
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1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart - A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.
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The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart - Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story.
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Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos' - His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern huma
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Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines - Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, chording keyboards, outlining, a type of hypertext, windows (tiled), and groupware. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. [Salon]
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Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online - Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples.
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