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- Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart
At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute. - Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution
History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog. - Douglas Engelbart
Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia] - Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" target="_blank" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer interaction. - Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart
Brief professional biography; a on-site few links. - Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies
Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics. - Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online
Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples. - Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University
Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video. - Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today. - The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart
Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize. - MouseSite
Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. - National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart
Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture. - 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart
A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links. - A Chat with Doug Engelbart
From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove] (June 10, 2005) - The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart
Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story. (February 21, 2001) - Computer Mouse Creator Wins Invention Prize
Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes. [USA Today] (February 28, 1999) - Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines
Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, chording keyboards, outlining, a type of hypertext, windows (tiled), and groupware. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. [Salon] (December 15, 1998) - Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS
Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution. (December 10, 1998) - The Man Behind the Mouse
Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek] (April 21, 1997) - Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker
By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. (June, 1985)
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