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Who We Are 0Founders 1The Doug Engelbart Institute (DEI) was founded by the late Doug Engelbart with his daughter Christina Engelbart to further his lifelong career goal of boosting mankind's ability to address complex, urgent problems. Christina was named Executive Director when Doug retired in 2008. She previously served as Associate Director. The organization originally operated under the name Bootstrap. 1
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Advisory Council2
The Doug Engelbart Institute Advisors offer a broad range of advanced research, innovation, and collaborative business expertise across industry, government, and non-profit sectors. 1
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Board of Directors 3
The Doug Engelbart Institute (DEI) is governed by a prestigious Board of Directors representing many years of experience and expertise in advanced research, innovation, and collaborative partnerships internationally. 1
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Emeritus Members 4
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A special heartfelt thanks to Jeff Rulifson for his nineteen years of service and friendship to the Doug Engelbart Institute's vision, mission, and management since 1995. Jeff was also an important contributor to Doug's early research at SRI. In 1966 he joined the team as Chief Software Architect, led the software team that implemented the oN-Line System (NLS), was instrumental in the 1968 Mother of All Demos, and served as liaison to the ARPA Network Working Group, which led to the first connection on the ARPANET. Although Doug was the founder and leader of ARC, Rulifson's innovative programming was essential to the realization of Engelbart's vision. In 1973, he moved on to Xerox PARC, and later Sun Labs (now Oracle). In 1990, along with Doug Engelbart and Bill English, Jeff was awarded the ACM's Software System Award "for pioneering work on augmenting human intellect with hypertext, outline processors, and video conferencing that was implemented in the NLS System (On-Line System)." |
In Memoriam 5
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Doug Engelbart conceived and founded the Institute with his daughter Christina in 1988, serving as Director through 2007. He passed away on July 2, 2013, at the age of 88. See Remembering Doug Engelbart for links to photos, tributes, and news of his passing. See About Doug Engelbart for his thumbnail bio and links to his CV, bibliography, patents, awards, biographical sketch, archives, and Wikipedia page(s). This entire website is a portal into his life's work, past present and future. It is a strategic starting point to where he predicted we would need to get to manifest the true potential of our Collective IQ. This is the call to action, or revolution in progress, that he has left us with. Thank you, Doug, for everything! We miss you! |