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Celebrating Doug's 100th Birthday   0

photo Doug portrait Doug Engelbart (1925-2013)
[Photo Credit: CRN]

Please join us in celebrating his gentle and generous soul, whose life's work remains a gift that keeps on giving, and continues to inspire. This year let's celebrate Doug Engelbart's January 30th birthday week through a 'Doug lens' – revisit­ing some of his epic accom­plish­ments, including, and most importantly, his message to the future (that's you!). Why bother? Check out About Doug Engelbart, and "Why Listen to Doug Engelbart today?"

Below are some suggestions to get you started:

Doug's Message to the Future (that's you!) 3

Here's a quick read written by Doug which featured in the 20th Anniversary issue of BYTE Magazine, "Dreaming of the Future"

Check out Doug's Vision for the Future, and Pivotal Strategy for boot­strap­ping that future, and learn with Doug in the Engelbart Academy presenting his message to the future to a variety of audiences. And don't miss his capstone article Improving our ability to improve: A call for investment in a new future.

Check out Learn More for short list of links to top picks from the press, and Doug's papers.

Now You Do It! 4

Learn how you can put those stra­te­gic prin­ci­ples to work Boot­strap­ping Bril­liance in your own ini­tia­tives, teams and organ­i­za­tions.

His Epic Pioneering Firsts 5

Browse our past anniversary Events, as well as gallery of Historic Firsts with links to detail on his constellation of interrelated pioneering breakthroughs. And not to brag, rather to get a feel for the breadth of impact from this earlier work, browse his recently enhanced Engelbart Awards Collection.

Bridging Past and Future 6

Doug Engelbart was always about the future – watch his vision unfold:
• 1962 Augmenting Human Intellect
• 1968 Goals, Strategy, Paradigm
• 1986 Augmented Knowledge Workshop
• 1991 Together We Can Get There!
• 1998 The Unfinished Revolution
• 1998 Bootstrap 'Paradigm Map'
• 2002 Vision Highlights