Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug's Great Demo

Visit theDemo.org for fun facts, archive photos and  video footage

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's seminal 1968 Demo – also known as "The Mother of All Demos." It was there at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference that Doug and his team at SRI first presented their seminal work in personal and interactive computing to the world – including the world debut of the mouse, online knowledge work with hypermedia and teleconferencing, and much, much more. Watch this short video tribute for a glimpse of the demo in the context of Doug's vision for the future.

Planning is now in the works for some exciting ways to celebrate, including the day long Engelbart Symposium in Silicon Valley in December.

Save the Date 2

Dec 9, 2018: The Engelbart Symposium - Silicon Valley
Join us for an all day symposium marking the anniversary to the day of Doug's 1968 demo at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. For details visit theDemoat50.org/symposium.

More events to be announced soon!
More events are being planned, check back and stay tuned for latest.

Experience past events 3

Several major anniversaries have been celebrated over the years – check out the 30th Anniversary and 40th Anniversary celebrations for starters where you can watch the speeches, panel discussions, and more. Visit our 1968 demo page at theDemo.org, watch highlights from the demo, or experience the demo interactively. See Engelbart Historic Events for these and more.

Press 3

		Groundbreaking 1968 Demo recognized with IEEE Milestone Plaque DEI - 3/21/2017
		In One 1968 Presentation, This Inventor Shaped Modern Computing Smitsonian Magazine - 1/30/2017
		Mother of Invention - WHY Magazine - 1/31/2017

More to come ...

Including press, press release, press story kit, etc. coming soon at the SRI Newsroom.

Event Series
Engelbart Historic Events | Doug's 1968 Demo |
30th Anniversary | 40th Anniversary | 45th Anniversary | 50th Anniversary