Engelbart, Douglas

Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart
At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/chronicle.html

Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution
History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog.
http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/

Douglas Engelbart
Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer interaction.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html

Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart
Brief professional biography; a on-site few links.
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies
Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics.
http://arctic.org/~adam/sites/eur/

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online
Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples.
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/engelbart/main.html

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University
Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
http://unrev.stanford.edu/

Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today.
http://www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html

The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart
Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html

MouseSite
Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart
Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html

1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart
A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/npuc97/1995/engelbart.htm

A Chat with Doug Engelbart
From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove] <small>(June 10, 2005)</small>
http://www.mprove.de/script/05/reboot/engelbart.html

The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart
Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story. <small>(February 21, 2001)</small>
http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2001/2001_02_21.cover21.html

Computer Mouse Creator Wins Invention Prize
Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes. [USA Today] <small>(February 28, 1999)</small>
http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/press/990228/cta234.html

Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines
Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, chording keyboards, outlining, a type of hypertext, windows (tiled), and groupware. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. [Salon] <small>(December 15, 1998)</small>
http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/15bc.html

Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS
Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution. <small>(December 10, 1998)</small>
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/12/16752

The Man Behind the Mouse
Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek] <small>(April 21, 1997)</small>
http://www.businessweek.com/1997/16/b352372.htm

Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker
By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. <small>(June, 1985)</small>
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html