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]
RIP Robert Taylor Who Shaped Modern Computing 
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]
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.
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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]
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.
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Great quotes by Doug Engelbart and Others
Favorite quotes from Doug Engelbart’s writings, talks, and interviews, plus some great related quotes by others. [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]
Meet this year’s Engelbart Scholar Award recipients Congratulations to our 2015-2016 Engelbart Scholar Award recipients from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and their professor Dr. Gardner Campbell, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success, Dean of University College, and Associate Professor of English at VCU. Dr. Campbell is the mastermind behind the Engelbart Scholar Program, as an extension of his innovative online course inspired in part by the pioneering vision of Doug Engelbart.
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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.
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Internet Society showcases Engelbart's Legacy in Action One year after inducting Doug Engelbart to the Internet Hall of Fame, the Internet Society ran a profile piece showcasing his lasting legacy, in particular how one professor – Dr. Gardner Campbell, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) – is putting his vision to practice. “Doug Engelbart’s greatest breakthrough may be to change how we think, how we learn and innovate, and how we collaborate.”
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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]
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]
Announcing Summer MOOC and Engelbart Scholar Award at VCU Vice Provost Gardner Campbell at Virginia Commonwealth University is launching a unique experiment with this cooperative style Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on research writing, including a new Engelbart Scholars Award for two lucky undergraduates.
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How these rural initiatives in Uganda are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge Guest contributor Patricia Seybold shares this fabulous case study showing how the Uganda Rural Development Training Programme (URDT) and the African Rural University (ARU) are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge. [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]
The human side of Doug Engelbart So much has been written about his technological vision and accomplishments, here are some snippets showcasing his considerable human side and his lifelong commitment to humanitarian pursuit. (Pictured: Doug as a young boy (left) with his kid brother (right))
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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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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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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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Dreams About How The World Could Be Guest author Gardner Campbell commemorates the NMC Fellows Award presentation to Doug Engelbart in June 2009 with his uncanny sense of articulating poetic sincerity the very core of Doug’s vision and passion. “Always, the goal was to enable us to identify, harness, and raise our collective IQ. The idea was to augment human intellects one by one, but by means of a fine tracing of mental and spiritual connections from which would emerge a true “capability infrastructure” to prepare us for the dangers, questions, and opportunities we would encounter as civilization continues to develop.”
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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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A Tribute on this Anniversary “Today marks the 41st anniversary of what is now known as the Mother of All Demos. On December 9th, 1968 at 3:45pm PT, my father Doug Engelbart and his research team at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) used the 90 minutes allotted for his speech at the Fall Joint Computer Conference to demonstrate their work live. This demo is now famous for dazzling the crowd with a whole new paradigm for computing, sparking the personal and interactive computing revolutions, the information age, etc.”
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