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Demos of the technological breakthroughs pioneered by Doug Engelbart and his research staff. For background, see our About NLS/Augment page.

NLS 2

NLS was Augment's precursor, the system Doug and his team presented in their 1968 Demo. Here you see Doug and his team in a seminal moment in history.

1968 - "The Mother of All Demos" (1968; 100 minutes Video/Film)
Doug's 1968 debut of NLS (Augment's precursor) and his guiding principles, he gave this spectacular demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, while video teleconferenced with his team back home at his SRI lab in Menlo Park, CA. The technical title of this presentation is A Research Center for Augmenting the Human Intellect. For an abridged version, plus more background, links, resources, press, and reflections on the demo from Doug and his team, see our 1968 Demo page.

1969 - "Augmentation Systems and Information Science" (1969)
One year after the 1968 Demo, Doug and his team gave a repeat performance at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), San Francisco, CA. This demo/presentation was filmed on 3 reels, now available for viewing at the Internet Archive's Doug Engelbart Archives collection: Reel 1, Reel 2, Reel 3.

Augment 1

1987 - Doug demonstrates Augment during his lecture at the 1987 Computer Systems Colloquium at Stanford University. Watch the video - demo begins at 29:10.

1992 - Doug demonstrates Augment throughout his three-day management seminar March 24-26, 1992. For example, watch Doug demonstrate the user interface with mouse and keyset. See the Bootstrap Seminar resources page for links to the video sessions and other resources.

2008 -This suite of screencasts by Christina Engelbart provides a basic orientation to some key elements of Augment, starting with the simplest point and click user interface of the beginner level Augment Browser, and advancing to progressively higher levels of capability, speed, precision, and proficiency at the "turbo" level. Note this demo is just a (admittedly long-winded!) first-pass prototype to see how screencasting works, the intention is to develop professional quality screencasts of all the software. Also note, these demos show just the tip of the iceberg of the depth and richness of the features and underlying architecture and vision of the system...

• A Quick Tour of the Augment Browser (25 minute Screencast: 6 scenes)
  Christina's 2008 no frills demo of the Augment Browser, feature by feature, including Zoom buttons, Jump, Viewspecs, Filtering, Create Link, through the progressive user interface levels, from "Class 1" level up to some highlights of the Turbo level. This is a rough draft but informative production.

Augment demos by others: 1b

1990 - Augment Handbook Demo
Jim Norton, former member of Doug's SRI lab who later ran the ARC group at Tymshare, demonstrates the concept of a "project handbook" -- the browseable encapsulation of a project team's dynamically evolving knowledgebase. Jim shows how Augment-like funcitonality benefits a project team's ability to capture and leverage its evolving knowledge.

2006 - Augment Technical Highlights (15 minute Screencast)
By Brad Neuberg, lead developer on the HyperScope dev team using the old-style AugTerm client.

HyperScope 3

To be developed.