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Celebrating the Mother of All Demos – 53 years on

December 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

Celebrating the Mother of All Demos - 53 years on DEI | Dec 9, 2021 | Christina Engelbart Help us celebrate Doug's legendary Demo with fun facts, archive footage and photos, and experience the demo interactively, with you in the driver's seat. [Continue Reading]

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Demo

December 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Demo DEI | Dec 8, 2018 | Christina Engelbart 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

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Groundbreaking 1968 Demo recognized with IEEE Milestone Plaque DEI | Mar 21, 2017 | Christina Engelbart 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]

Today in Tech History – the Mother of All Demos

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Today in Tech History – the Mother of All Demos DEI | Dec 9, 2015 | Christina Engelbart 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... [Continue Reading]

‘The Demo’ now an avant garde opera at Stanford

April 3, 2015 // 1 Comment

‘The Demo’ now an avant garde opera at Stanford DEI | Apr 1, 2015 | Christina Engelbart 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. [Continue Reading]

President Obama cites Engelbart’s Innovations

February 15, 2015 // 1 Comment

President Obama cites Engelbart’s Innovations DEI | Feb 14, 2015 | Christina Engelbart 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]