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]
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]
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]
Game Changer: Hypothes.is announces 'direct linking' across the web
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.
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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. [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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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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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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Toward Boosting Our Collective IQ: A Knowledge-Centric Approach
Announcing a new publication from the Seybold Group at customers.com, an adaptation of selected writings by Douglas C. Engelbart, edited by Christina Engelbart, with Preface and Conclusions by same. “In the early 1990s, Doug Engelbart, renowned innovator, described the basic components of a dynamic knowledge ecosystem, and the knowledge bases that are constantly evolving from within these ecosystems, as a wake-up call for IT professionals as well as business users. His call to action is even more viable and pressing today as the scope and method of interaction and collaboration become increasingly distributed, networked, cross-functional, cross-disciplinary, cross-organizational, cross-cultural, interdependent, complex, and urgent on a global scale -- just as he predicted. Here we present his view of what is needed as well as an update by his daughter and innovation partner, Christina, on how far we have come in achieving his vision.” [Continue Reading]
More on getting beyond paper and linear media A paradigm shift from paper and other linear media to models that more closely map to how our minds work to better serve our collective intellect. [Continue Reading]© 2009-2021 Doug Engelbart Institute | MH Magazine theme | mods by cog.dog | Website Powered by WordPress.com.
