Engelbart - Historical Journey

History Corner 0

Overview 2
Autobiographical 3
Pivotal Work 4

Welcome to the Doug Engelbart history corner. Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963 and the rest is history. But how did it come about? What is the history? Here we offer pointers to some of the highlights. Someday maybe this will turn into a virtual museum... 1

Overview 2

Biographical Sketch - [3 pages] written by daughter/partner Christina Engelbart 2A
MouseSite - an online resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart [...] Hosted by the Stanford University History of Technology Project (click here for related links)! 2B

Autobiographical 3

Smithsonian Oral History
Historic photos of Engelbart's early work at SRI, with annotated index [Credit-1] 3B
Augmented Knowledge Workshop 1986 Videotaped presentation 3C
Workstation History and The Augmented Knowledge Workshop, 1988 companion to the videotaped presentation 3D

Pivotal Work 4

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework 1962 - Engelbart spent years developing this framework, which continues to be the wellspring for all his accomplishments. [Credit-2] 4A
A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect 1968 - by now Engelbart had a fully funded computer laboratory, had a staff of software engineers, had developed a comprehensive hypermedia knowledge environment which incidently the engineers also used as a software development tool/environment (the essence of bootstrapping). [Credit-2] 4B
A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect 1968 VIDEO - the preceding paper was delivered at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, in the form of a 90-minute online hypermedia presentation... 4C
More historic papers... [Credit-2]

Other Perspectives 5

Folio 12 Abet Innovation a book of 'famous last words' by famous people reacting to innovation throughout history. [Credit-3]
Timeline for Human Computer Interaction graphical representation of the evolution of HCI. [Credit-3]

Please let us know if you can think of anything else we should add, do, think about for this budding History Corner...

Credits

Credit-1: special thanks to colleague Bernt Wahl for digitizing these for us!

Credit-2: vielen dank to Michael Friedewald and the students in the Computer History Course at the Technical University Aachen, Germany, Department for History of Technology for scanning these in, putting them up on the web, and making them available to us!

Credit-3: thank you long time comrad Bill Daul for making this available!