A Tribute to Bill English “On behalf of Doug Engelbart and the Doug Engelbart Institute, we bid farewell to Bill English, one of the greats in Doug’s seminal research, who died on July 26 at the age of 91. To the wonderful outpouring we'll embellish here on his seminal contributions to Doug Engelbart's research, with archive footage, photos, and more.” [Continue Reading]
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]
Groundbreaking 1968 Demo recognized with IEEE Milestone Plaque Doug's legendary 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 was celebrated at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA. [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]
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]
Bye Bye Babbage The Babbage Engine has been one of my personal favs at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA since 2008...
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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 talk, he and his team demonstrated their vision and progress to an astonished audience of a thousand computer professionals throughout the 90 minute session. Attendees got a taste of how knowledge workers of the future would work together in an online interactive collaborative hyperlinked information space. This was not just a demonstration of what could be, it was a demonstration of how the researchers in Doug’s lab were already working on a daily basis...
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‘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 by Doug Engelbart and his team from Stanford Research Institute at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968.
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President Obama cites Engelbart’s Innovations In his speech Friday at the Cyber Summit at Stanford University, President Barak Obama named key pioneers behind the breakthrough innovations that catapulted us into the digital Information Age, leading with Hewlett and Packard, and Douglas Engelbart. Watch this segment of the speech, or enjoy the whole speech here. [Continue Reading]
Meet the ‘keyset’ – a mouse’s best friend The mouse was not the only input device invented by Doug Engelbart. Meet the keyset, which Engelbart invented to input text and commands with his left hand while pointing on the screen with his right to increase speed and efficiency. Check out this feature article Of Mice And Men by 99%Invisible podcaster Luisa Beck.
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Farewell to Jim Norton A special tribute to Jim Norton, who worked in Doug Engelbart's lab in the 1970s and '80s, and who passed away October 2014. [Continue Reading]
A Fond Farewell to Dave Evans A special tribute to Dave Evans, who worked in Doug Engelbart's lab in the 1960s, and who passed away September 2014. [Continue Reading]
Doug Engelbart inducted to Internet Hall of Fame “Hong Kong - April 8, 2014 - The late Doug Engelbart now named among the elite ranks of notables inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for their significant contributions to the advancement of the global Internet.” [Continue Reading]
Celebrating Doug Engelbart and the 45th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos December 9th, 2013 marked the 45th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos at the Computer History Museum with a wonderful memorial celebration of Doug Engelbart, who passed away earlier this year. [Continue Reading]
Re: “What ever happened to Augmenting Human Intellect” Here is a must-see webinar from O’Reilly Webcast: Whatever Happened to “Augmenting Human Intellect”? presented by Scott Murray, Nov 20th. “Exploring the fundamental role of data visualization in a palatable form to human perception” and relates it to Doug Engelbart’s seminal pursuit.
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Vote for the Mouse in first-ever Tech Tournament Vote for the Mouse, which "put the power of computing in everyone's hands," in this Tech Tournament sponsored by the Industrial Research Institute. Voting ends Nov. 15, 2013.
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Press tributes to Doug Engelbart on his passing So many wonderful articles, photos and tributes are appearing to mark the passing of Doug Engelbart, a great legend and wonderful man, died Tuesday, July 2, 2013. We will be posting some of the highlights here, with links to photos, stories, tributes and more.
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Inventing the Mouse The short story of how Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse, and why. Includes photos with links to historic video footage. Written by his daughter and long-time business partner Christina Engelbart.
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A day in the life of a personal archivist “I wear many hats at the Doug Engelbart Institute, one of which is head archivist for the Doug Engelbart Archive Collection. In the spring of 2010 it came time to upload archive videos of Doug Engelbart’s demos, lectures, tributes, interviews, etc. dating 1968-2008. I worked with the good folks at the Internet Archive to upload and annotate over 100 newly digitized videos, into a newly appointed Personal Archive collection on the Internet Archive called the Doug Engelbart Video Archives. Here is my story of how this one project came to fruition.
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Personal Digital Archiving Conference 2011 Last week the Internet Archive hosted the second annual conference on Personal Digital Archiving. In my presentation, “Learnings from a Life’s Work: The Doug Engelbart Archives,” I touched on my father’s life’s work, experiences archiving that work, and how his driving vision underlying that work informs the future of tools and practices for capturing, integrating, developing, evolving and re-using our individual and collective repositories, in both our work lives and our personal lives. [Continue Reading]
40th Anniversary of the Patent on the Mouse “Here’s something to tip your hat to – today marks the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart receiving the U.S. patent for the mouse on Nov 17, 1970.” Explore fun facts and stories, archive photos and video on the mouse invention at the Doug Engelbart Institute.
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For Gardner's New Media Seminar “Thanks again to Gardner Campbell and gang for including me in his groundbreaking seminar “Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Networked Faculty Seminar” for today’s discussion! The assignment for today was to read Doug Engelbart’s seminal report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework in the New Media Reader textbook, which includes a fabulous 2-page intro to the article, and Janet Murray’s delightful preface Inventing the Medium” [Continue Reading]
Celebrating 65 Years of “As We May Think” July 2010 marked the 65th anniversary of the seminal article “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush — which article directly and indirectly influenced the great pioneers of the information age that followed — pioneers such as Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee. A special symposium was held in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bush’s article, convening those pioneers, and lucky for us that event was videotaped, AND, wiith the help of the Internet Archive we have now uploaded a complete set of those videos. Enjoy!
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Curt Carlson’s Opening Remarks Curt Carlson's welcome address from the 40th anniversary celebration of Doug’s “Mother of All Demos” is a wonderful summary of Doug Engelbart's strategic vision and enduring legacy.
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How Doug Engelbart taught kids to ride a bike (without training wheels) How Doug Engelbart applied his knowledge of what keeps bikes from falling over to teaching kids how to ride a bike without training wheels.
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