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There is so much available about Doug Engelbart's work -- by him, his team, his colleagues, and the press. Here are a few key pieces to get you started: 1a

Quick Reads1b

• Vision Highlights: Augmenting Society's Collective IQs - overview of Doug's guiding vision, a conceptual framework that shaped his research agenda from the beginning
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• Our Vision and Mission - conceptual to concrete
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• Projects and Initiatives - operationalizing the vision
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• A Lifetime Pursuit - short biography depicting Doug's prior work and the unprecedented human/tool innovation that emerged from his strategic framework
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1968 Demo 1c

• The Mother of All Demos - video tour of the early tool innovations; see also SRI's Video Highlights of the 1968 Demo
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For Kids 1d

• Just For Kids - this section of the website is devoted to kids interested in learning more about Doug Engelbart's life and work.
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Key Press Articles 1e

• The Click Heard Round The World, WIRED - tool innovations highlights
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• Douglas Engelbart: More Thoughts, TidBITS - strategic vision for innovation
  "Douglas Engelbart can be credited with inventing much of the computing paradigm we all use today, but have we missed his most important ideas?"
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• Improving Your Organization's IQ, Leader to Leader - a paradigm for executives
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• The man who sees the future, U.S. News - "Yet, all the brilliant things he has produced are mere baubles compared to the ideas he's trying to get across."
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• Muted Celebration for Computing, BBC News
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• A Commitment to Complete the Work of Augmenting Human Intelligence, Outside Innovation - what it could mean to today's IT and business strategists
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Key Engelbart Articles 1f

• Augmenting Society's Collective IQs. 2004
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• Working Together. 1988
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• Boosting Our Collective IQ: A Selection of Readings. 1995
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• Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware. 1992
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• Workstation History and The Augmented Knowledge Workshop. 1986
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• A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect. 1968
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• Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. 1962
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Works By Engelbart & Team 2

About Doug 2a

• Biographies - a short bio on Doug Engelbart, plus a 5 page biographical sketch A Lifetime Pursuit. See also Patents, Awards, Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography
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Archives 2b

• Books and Articles - see Books by Doug Engelbart; for articles by him and his team see the and Bibliography (list with complete citation details) and Augmentation Papers (same list, streamlined)
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• Videos - Videography - links to the video collections of Doug's key talks, presentations, workshops, awards, and conferences available online.
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• Complete Archives - visit the Engelbart Archive Collection, a portal into his photos, videos, texts, slides, demos, software, press coverage, historic events, stories, and more.
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Works By Others 3

• Press Clippings - articles written by the press.
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• Books - books that feature or mention Doug Engelbart.
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• Video Interviews and Video Archives - links to videos of TV interviews with Doug Engelbart.
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Alternate Views 5

Here are some alternate views of Doug's conceptual framework created by his colleagues:

• From David Gendron: a new take on the Bootstrap Paradigm Map.
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• From David Price: Doug Engelbart Institute on Debate Graph.
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Other Places of Interest 5

• On the subject of Engelbart and Multimedia see artmuseum.net wonderful pages on Engelbart's Contribution to Multimedia, Creative Work, Writing, and role in the History of Multimedia.
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• Links to interesting references on EPSS Central, UWE Bristol
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