This Week In Tech History: The Mother Of All Demos,
by Gil Press, for Forbes, December 7, 2015 "December 9, 1968. Doug Engelbart demonstrates the oNLine System (NLS) to about one thousand attendees at the Fall Joint Computer Conference held by the American Federation of Information Processing. The demonstration introduced the first computer mouse, hypertext linking, multiple windows with flexible view control, real-time on-screen text editing, and shared-screen teleconferencing. Engelbart and his colleague Bill English, the engineer who designed the first mouse, conducted a real-time demonstration in San Francisco with co-workers connected from his Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at SRI's headquarters..."Read more.
Smithsonian's "Places of Invention" Exhibit Highlights the Rise of the Personal Computer,
by Blake Patterson, for ByteCellar, July 8, 2015 "I recently visited the museum and there saw many legendary things, among them: the Xerox Alto; a MITS Altair 8800; Douglas Engelbart's (father of hypertext) invention: the first, wooden mouse; the original Macintosh computer; a general history of Silicon Valley at the genesis of personal computing; a hobbyists' billboard pulled from the Valley's long past; and a lovely display highlighting the work of distinguished iconographer Susan Kare..."Read more.
See also the Smithsonian's coverage of this exhibit and photos from Christina Engelbart's visit.
Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological,
May 5, 2015 Doug Engelbart's greatest breakthrough may be to change how we think, how we learn and innovate, and how we collaborate. The Internet Hall of Fame featured profile on this 2014 Inductee, including how one university is putting his vision to practice in an experimental MOOC and associated Engelbart Scholar Award program.
Oregon students win history honors, heading for nationals,
The Oregonian, April 22, 2015 Twenty-four Oregon students advance to the nationals in Washington DC for their outstanding presentations on Leadership & Legacy in last Saturday's Oregon History Day, including Junior Level contestant Zaidie Long of ACCESS Academy in Portland, who presented her documentary: "Douglas Engelbart: Man Behind the TechnologicalRevolution".
Of mice and Men,
99%Invisible (podcast and article), Jan 20, 2015
A Radio Show about Design with Roman Mar - this episode explores the Keyset invented by Doug Engelbart. "If you are looking at a computer screen, your right hand is probably resting on a mouse.. moving back and forth from keyboard to mouse. .... There is another way..." See also our blog followup post Meet the 'keyset', and more background and archive photos.
VCU launches MOOCs,
Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 2, 2014 Vice Provost Gardner Campbell at Virginia Commonwealth University is teaming with other professors and other universities, and joined forces with Christina Engelbart at the Doug Engelbart Institute to design a collaborative MOOC plus the all new Engelbart Scholar Award;See also more background and photos.
EVENT: Technology Legend: Honoring Douglas Engelbart, Computer History Museum, December 2013, sponsored by SRI International and Logitech, Inc.
A special public tribute event to honor the passing of Douglas Carl Engelbart (1925-2013)
Doug Engelbart's Design for High Performance Innovative Organizations: Change Your Organization's Nervous System,
by Patty Seybold, customers.com, July 17, 2013 I have been a fan and follower of Doug Engelbart since I first discovered his work in the early 1970s. After his death in 2013, I revisited a videotaped interview I did with Doug in November of 1991 [in which Doug described] much of his seminal thinking about how to design high performance organizations. [...] In this article, I summarize a few of the high points from that interview.
Doug The Mouse Inventor's Vision of Computing,
by John Markoff, NY Times, July 13, 2013 Beginning in the 1950s, when computing was in its infancy, Douglas C. Engelbart set out to show that progress in science and engineering could be greatly accelerated if researchers, working in small groups, shared computing power. [...] In December 1968, however, he set the computing world on fire with a remarkable demonstration...
CHM Fellow Douglas C. Engelbart,
by Marc Weber, Computer History Museum, July 12, 2013 His goal was building systems to augment human intelligence. His group prototyped much of modern computing (and invented the mouse) along the way...
The Pioneers of the World Wide Web,
By Andrew Beattie, Techopedia, April 29, 2013 Tim Berners-Lee deserves praise for putting together the World Wide Web, but others can take credit for giving him the idea....
Improve Your Ecosystem's Ability to Tackle Complex Issues,
by Patty Seybold, in Outside Innovation, June 6, 2010 For internetworked organizations [...] there’s also a robust body of proven practices that reminds us how to accelerate our capacity for innovation as a group of people. Many of the basic principles for “bootstrapping innovation” among people who are working together online (and offline) to address complex issues were invented and practiced by Doug Engelbart. [...] At our recent Visionaries’ meeting, Christina Engelbart, Doug’s daughter, reminded us that her father’s life work revolved around helping groups of people tackle really complex issues. (read the article)
Christina Engelbart speaking re:
the vision driving Doug's work
[photo courtesy SRI International]
Bootstrapping Innovation: Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results,
by Ronni Marshak, Senior Consultant/Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group, June 3, 2010 At our Spring 2010 Visionaries meeting, Christina Engelbart, executive director of the Doug Engelbart Institute and
heir apparent to the visionary thinking of
her father, Doug Engelbart, presented the concepts and action model for Bootstrapping Innovation… (read the article)
"If the name Douglas C. Engelbart ever comes up on TV's Jeopardy game show, the question doubtless will have been: "Who invented the computer mouse?" In fact, that's hardly Engelbart's only claim. [...]
Ask Engelbart, and he says his life's work is about an even more audacious goal: trying to figure out ways to help the human race solve its increasingly complex problems..."
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