Doug Engelbart's    Colloquium at Stanford

An In-Depth Look at "The Unfinished Revolution"

Note: Basic program format for each session includes Doug Engelbart lecture with Q&A, interspersed with guest lectures illustrating the points from their respective domains of expertise. Lecture titles link to the complete transcripts including any slides used by the speaker. The main title for each session links to Engelbart's presentations.
NEW! Browse chapterized video of these sessions at our Engelbart Colloquium Video page, with links to the powerpoint slides and transcripts.

January 6, 2000
Session 1. The next frontier - How big is big?     Watch Session 1A | 1B  2

• Andy DiPaolo - Introduction to the Stanford Center for Professional Development and Engelbart Colloquium  2A
• Terry Winograd - Introduction of Douglas Engelbart  2B
• Jerome Glenn (video clip) - State of the future  2C
• Ed Kinderman (video clip) - State of the world's energy supply  2D
• Patricia Rush (video clip) - State of health service  2E
• Curtis Carlson (video clip) - State of biotechnology: Values and threats  2F
• Peter Neumann (video clip) - State of software technology: Security and reliability  2G
• Masakazu Ohashi (video clip) - Why Japan as a nation could benefit from bootstrapping  2H

January 13, 2000
Session 2. Augmenting organizational capabilities     Watch Session 2A | 2B  3

• Jim Spohrer - Education, training, and life-long learning  3A
• Hewitt Crane - Second set of considerations about the state of the world's energy supply  3B

January 20, 2000
Session 3. Leveraging our collective intelligence     Watch Session 3A | 3B  4

• Marcelo Hoffmann - Knowledge management: Key findings and lessons  4A
• Jerome Glenn (video clip) - The AC-UNU Millennium Project  4B
• Peter Yim - The AC-UNU Millennium Project: A bootstrap perspective  4C
• Neil Jacobstein - Nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing: Opportunities and risks  4D
• Peter Yim - The prototype DKR  4E

January 27, 2000
Session 4. Enabling technology - Missing pieces     Watch Session 4A | 4B  5

• Jerome Glenn - On the Millennium Project  5A
• Jim Spohrer - IBM's Web-Based Intermediaries  5B
• Tanya Jones - Foresight Web Enhancement  5C
• Adam Cheyer - Agents, Open Agent Architecture, and Open Hyperdocument System  5D
• Jon Bosak - About XML (principal panelist)  5E

February 3, 2000
Session 5. Bootstrapping continuous improvement     Watch Session 5A | 5B  6

• Masakazu Ohashi - Quality and bootstrapping  6A
• Norman McEachron - Quality and benchmarking  6B
• Christine Peterson - Orientation: Open-source development   6C
• Andrew Pam - Quality and bootstrapping  6D
• Adam Cheyer - A proposal for moving forward  6E
• Eric Armstrong - Further OHS-planning suggestions  6F

February 10, 2000
Session 6. Networked improvement communities     Watch Session 6A | 6B  7

• Howard Rheingold - Two decades focus on "Communities"  7A
• Roy Pea - Networked improvement communities in education  7B
• Jim Spohrer - About the EOE Foundation (a unique educational NIC)  7C
• Werner Schaer - Software Productivity Consortium: An example of an improvement community  7D
• Jeff Rulifson - Bootstrap to Multi-NIC: A bootstrap bootstrapping proposal  7E

February 17, 2000
Session 7. Scalable improvement infrastructures     Watch Session 7A | 7B  8

• Barbara Simons - Bootstrapping technology policy: Copyright  8A
• Alan Cox - e.Republic: An improvement community in progress  8B
• Jon Bosak - Government: The killer app?  8C
• Tatsuya Uyetani - Bootstrap activities in Japan  8D

February 24, 2000
Session 8. Pilot outposts on the frontier     Watch Session 8A | 8B  9

• Rob Swigart - The future: Scenarios and vignettes  9A
• Norman McEachron - Benchmarking to improve management practices  9B
• Marcelo Hoffmann - Intelligence: Collection, analysis, dissemination  9C

March 2, 2000
Session 9. Bootstrapping in your organization and community     Watch Session 9A | 9B  10

• Allen Brown - Driving towards interoperability  10A
• Curtis Carlson - What's the value proposition? Exponential teams, NICs, etc.  10B
• Michael Harte & Rick Swanborg (video clip) - Bootstrapping at CitiGroup  10C
• Ted Nelson - Where our hyper-media really should go!  10D

March 9, 2000
Session 10. Tying it all together - Next steps     Watch Session 10A | 10B  11

• Peter Yim - The prototype-DKR frontend  11A
• Adam Cheyer - OHS/DKR for B2B NetMarkets  11B
• Eric Armstrong - Creating a SuperNews Group  11C
• Jack Park - Literate Knowledge Programming   11D
• Andy Poggio - Information and products  11E
• Neil Scott - The Archimedes Project  11F