‘The Demo’ now an avant garde opera at Stanford

‘The Demo’ as 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 by Doug Engelbart and his team just down the road at Stanford Research Institute for the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 1968. For information:

• Stanford Live: The Demo 2015 and surrounding events at Stanford
• Original Demo: Watch highlights / Visit Stanford’s MouseSite / More Historic Firsts
• Mikel Rouse The Demo performance unfolding

Press:

• NY Times The Musical ‘The Demo’ at Stanford Recreates the Dawn of the Digital Age
• Engadget The mother of all tech demos becomes an avant garde opera
• The Multiverse: From the vault: Watching (and re-watching) “The Mother of All Demos”
• Wired The Most Epic Demo in Computer History Is Now an Opera
• San Jose Mercury Game-changing computer demo captured in new opera at Stanford
• PC Magazine Historic 1968 Tech Demo Now an Opera
• IBN Live Stanford showcases Douglas Engelbart’s historic 1968 computer technology demo as an opera

Reviews

• IEEE The Demo, a Musical About the Mouse

Prior Engelbart Events at Stanford

• 2008 – Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing
• 2000 – Engelbart’s Colloquium at Stanford
• 1998 – Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution
• 1992 – Engelbart’s Bootstrap Seminar at Stanford