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There is so much available about Doug Engelbart's work -- by him, his team, his colleagues, and the press. Here are a few key pieces to get you started: 1a

Quick Reads1b

• Vision Highlights: Augmenting Society's Collective IQs - strategic framework overview
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• Our Vision and Mission - conceptual to concrete
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• Projects section of our website - operationalizing the strategic framework
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• A Lifetime Pursuit - unprecedented human/tool innovation already emerged from that strategic framework
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1968 Demo 1c

• The Mother of All Demos - video tour of the early tool innovations; see also Video Highlights of the 1968 Demo
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For Kids 1d

• Just For Kids - this section of the website is devoted to kids interested in learning more about Doug Engelbart's life and work.
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Key Press Articles 1e

• The Click Heard Round The World, WIRED - tool innovations highlights
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• Douglas Engelbart: More Thoughts, TidBITS - strategic vision for innovation
  "Douglas Engelbart can be credited with inventing much of the computing paradigm we all use today, but have we missed his most important ideas?"
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• Improving Your Organization's IQ, Leader to Leader - a paradigm for executives
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• The man who sees the future, U.S. News - "Yet, all the brilliant things he has produced are mere baubles compared to the ideas he's trying to get across."
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Key Engelbart Articles 1f

• Augmenting Society's Collective IQs. 2004
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• Working Together. 1988
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• Boosting Our Collective IQ: A Selection of Readings. 1995
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• Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware. 1992
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• Workstation History and The Augmented Knowledge Workshop. 1986
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• A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect. 1968
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• Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. 1962
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Works By Engelbart & Team 2

About Doug 2a

• Biographies - a short bio on Doug Engelbart, plus a 5 page biographical sketch A Lifetime Pursuit. See also Patents, Awards, Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography
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Basic Archives 2b

• Articles - Augmentation Papers (list of linked articles) and Bibliography (list with citation details)
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• Books - Books by Doug Engelbart - information about Doug's books.
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• Videos - Videography - links to the videos of Doug's key talks, presentations, workshops, awards, and conferences available online.
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• Demos - see Demos for demonstrations given by Doug Engelbart, Christina Engelbart, and members of the HyperScope team showing NLS (1968) and Augment (2006-2008).
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• Slides - The Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" 2008 - an updated version of the presentaiton materials used in Engelbart's workshops presenting his vision for the future and call for action.
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Works By Others 3

• Press Clippings - articles written by the press.
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• Books - books that feature or mention Doug Engelbart.
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• Video Interviews - links to videos of TV interviews with Doug Engelbart.
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More Archives 4

Projects & Events 4a

• See key event and project archives under Past Projects on our Projects page.
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Special Collections 4b

• Doug Engelbart Institute: see the following selections on the main menu of our website: About | About Doug; History; Library; Press | Press Clippings. See also the Doug Engelbart Institute on Facebook for more photos and historical postings.
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• At Stanford University: MouseSite and the Douglas C. Engelbart Collection including many of Engelbart's notes, memos, proposals, meeting records, mouse patent, and the MouseSite Photo Gallery; video archives of Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution and Engelbart's Colloquium, Oral History Interviews, Silicon Valley Archives, Special Collections & Archives (see our Stanford Collections page for additional details)
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• Computer History Museum: Fellow Award, Software Preservation Projects, Internet History Timeline, plus considerable hardcopy documents, notes, and records from Engelbart's historic lab at SRI.
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• Smithsonian Institute: Oral History Project at the National Museum of American History videotaped interview with Douglas Engelbart
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• SRI International: commemorative event Engelbart and the Dawn of International Computing, timelines on The Beginning of the Global Computer Revolution and The ARPANET, the National Medal of Technology, SRI Alumni Hall of Fame, News Storykit, Video Highlights of the 1968 Demo
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• New Media Consortium: Doug Engelbart on the Invention of the Mouse is the first of dozens of Engelbart digital archive videos the NMC is hosting.
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• Wikipedia: Douglas Engelbart, Augmentation Research Center, NLS, Network Information Center, ARPANET
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Other Places of Interest 5

• On the subject of Engelbart and Multimedia see artmuseum.net wonderful pages on Engelbart's Contribution to Multimedia, Creative Work, Writing, and role in the History of Multimedia.
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• Links to interesting references on EPSS Central, UWE Bristol
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