Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Demo
Events were held on three continents celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's landmark demo - exploring the past and future of a brilliant legacy and all it inspires! [Continue Reading]
Doug Engelbart’s Paradigm for Bootstrapping
Guest contributor Karen Risa Robbins with Christina Engelbart explore the essential elements of Doug Engelbart's paradigm for bootstrapping networked teams, initiatives, and organizations. [Continue Reading]
Thought Vectors – What Motivated Doug Engelbart
Guest contributor Greg Lloyd, President Traction Software, Inc., shares his insights on Doug's driving vision in connection with Gardner's Thought Vectors MOOC offered at Virginia Commonwealth University. [Continue Reading]
HyPerform and Augment
Guest contributor Dean Meyer, management consultant and author who got his start in Doug Engelbart's lab, shares his insights re: the concept, history, and purpose of Doug's iconic “Augment” system, as exemplified by HyPerform [Continue Reading]
Engelbart on Improving Improvement
From guest author Jim Spohrer - Doug Engelbart is most well-known for inventing the mouse, and as an internet pioneer. However, Doug’s vision for improving improvement to better tackle complex, urgent problems is to many his most significant contribution. [Continue Reading]
What is the Bootstrapping Methodology?
From guest contributor Karen Risa Robbins - key insights from Doug Engelbart's visionary strategy for bootstrapping transformation in business and social enterprises. [Continue Reading]
RIP Robert Taylor Who Shaped Modern Computing
We mourn the passing this week of another great Internet pioneer, innovator, and instigator of networked personal computing – Bob Taylor. In the early 1960s, Doug [Continue Reading]
Groundbreaking 1968 Demo recognized with IEEE Milestone Plaque
Demo now recognized as a seminal event in the history of computing, by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity. Unveiling of the IEEE Milestone Plaque celebrated at Computer History Museum... [Continue Reading]
Announcing a cool new way to experience the 1968 Demo!
Now you can experience Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" like never before - in this new interactive format you get a bird's eye view of the video that is browsable, skimmable, sampleable... [Continue Reading]
Gardner Campbell and The Great VCU Bike Race Learning Expedition
Dr. Gardner Campbell has done it again with another revolutionary online course at University, now an Award-winning course, with all the earmarks of Bootstrapping Brilliance... [Continue Reading]
Game Changer: Hypothes.is announces ‘direct linking’ across the web
I am absolutely thrilled to report that you can now link directly to a specific point within a file, most anywhere on the web. The tool is 'hypothes.is', it is a game changer, and I'll tell you why. [Continue Reading]
The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ
What is this promise? In Doug's mind it was always about humans interacting with each other and with their knowledge in dynamic knowledge ecosystems, facilitated by a suite of interactive tools and processes. This is the gateway to augmenting human intellect, boosting Collective IQ, enhancing human effectiveness, and Bootstrapping Brilliance in business and society. [Continue Reading]
On Tour with our Engelbart Scholars
What did these undergrads do for Spring Break? They toured with the Doug Engelbart Institute in the San Francisco area, joined by professors and an embedded university librarian, for a week of hands on immersion in the Engelbart legacy. [Continue Reading]
How Doug Engelbart taught students about how computers think
Around 1960 Doug Engelbart was a young electrical engineer at Stanford Research Institute, invited by several local schools and clubs to come teach them how computers worked. Instead of giving lectures on the topic, he devised a parlor game where the players acted out the basic computer operations. [Continue Reading]
Bootstrapping Brilliance in Education
Here are some links to accompany my 'lightening talk' at last weekend's Ed Foo Camp, an invitation-only unconference on Education Innovation sponsored by O'Reilly, Google, Sesame Street and MacMillan Learning. My slides: ... [Continue Reading]
Can citizen science be used to solve Alzheimer’s?
I recently spoke with colleague Pietro Michelucci about an exciting new effort to dramatically accelerate progress in Alzheimer's research by crowdsourcing the image analysis. [Continue Reading]
Bye Bye Babbage
The Babbage Engine has been one of my personal favs at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA since 2008. If you want to see it there, you have thru Jan 31, 2016, [Continue Reading]
Going ‘Lean’ is strategic for any organization
Executive Director Christina Engelbart attended Lean Startup Conference 2015 to (1) learn how to apply it, (2) in community, and (3) see how it plays with Bootstrapping Brilliance [Continue Reading]
Today in Tech History – the Mother of All Demos
December 9th, 1968 at 3:00pm at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, California, Doug Engelbart was slated to present his research. Instead of giving his [Continue Reading]
Esther Dyson’s ‘Way to Wellville’ Challenge a game changer
Here’s an exciting fresh approach to transforming the health of our communities. “The Way to Wellville, a national challenge among five communities over five years to make significant, visible and lasting improvement in five measures of health and economic vitality. In the end, we’ll map new paths for entire communities to make changes that result in healthier people and places.” [Continue Reading]
Great quotes by Doug Engelbart and Others
Quotes by Doug Engelbart Be sure to Comment and share your favs! “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of [Continue Reading]
Meet this year’s Engelbart Scholar Award recipients
Congratulations to Marina Green and Ayah Oweis, our 2015-2016 Engelbart Scholar Award recipients from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and their professor Dr. Gardner [Continue Reading]
Internet Society showcases Engelbart’s Legacy at VCU
In April 2014, Internet Pioneer Douglas Engelbart was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame (a posthumous award). One year later, the Internet Society ran a profile [Continue Reading]
Engelbart Scholars tour with Doug Engelbart Institute
I was honored and thrilled this last month to host some very special guests for a full week of site tours, meetings, and in-depth studies — a select group of Engelbart Scholars convening the week of March 9th at the Doug Engelbart Institute in Menlo Park, CA, for a “deep dive” into Doug Engelbart’s seminal work, including a tour of Doug Engelbart Archive collections at Stanford Libraries Special Collections, the Computer History Museum, and the Internet Archives. [Continue Reading]
‘The Demo’ now an avant garde opera at Stanford
Stanford Live presents an avant garde opera ‘The Demo’, a musical/video/lightshow reimagining the 1968 “Mother of All Demos” originally presented [Continue Reading]
