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Douglas Engelbart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia] |
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MouseSite - http://sloan.stanford.edu/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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Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html
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: Stanford University - http://unrev.stanford.edu/
Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video. |
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Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution - http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/
History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog. |
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Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online - http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/engelbart/main.html
Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples. |
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Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines - http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/15bc.html
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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Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos' - http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html
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 human-computer interaction. |
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The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart - http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html
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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Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/12/16752
Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution. |
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National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart - http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html
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 - http://www.mprove.de/script/05/reboot/engelbart.html
From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove] |
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Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution - http://www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today. |
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1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/npuc97/1995/engelbart.htm
A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links. |
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The Man Behind the Mouse - http://www.businessweek.com/1997/16/b352372.htm
Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek] |