Douglas

See also:

• Computers: Human-Computer Interaction  (355)
• Computers: Software: Groupware  (433)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Graphic Subsystems: Desktop Environments  (715)

• Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart - At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
• Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution - History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog.
• Douglas Engelbart - Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
• 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 human-computer interaction.
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies - Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics.
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online - Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples.
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University - Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart - A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.

• A Chat with Doug Engelbart - From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove] (June 10, 2005)
• 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. (February 21, 2001)
• Computer Mouse Creator Wins Invention Prize - Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes. [USA Today] (February 28, 1999)
• 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] (December 15, 1998)
• Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS - Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution. (December 10, 1998)
• The Man Behind the Mouse - Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek] (April 21, 1997)
• 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. (June, 1985)