Engelbart, Douglas

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• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
  
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics.
  
• Dreaming of the Future Engelbart's Commentary from BYTE Magazine, Vol. 20(9):330, Sept. 1995. 'Digital technology could help make this a better world. But we've also got to change our way of thinking.'
  
• 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.
  
• BusinessWeek: The Man Behind the Mouse Very brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize.
  
• Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution.
  
• 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.
  
• Salon: Brilliant Careers: Of mice, men and machines Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, and much more. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system.
  
• USA Today: Computer mouse creator wins invention prize Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes.
  
• 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.
  
• Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart Brief professional biography; a on-site few links.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Douglas Engelbart Very brief biography, in larger WEB Publishing Paradigms website, by Tim Guay, Simon Fraser University.
  
• Computerworld: This revolution brought to you by ... Depressing story on Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: 30 years later, nothing has evolved. Some Alan Kay quotes.
  
• U.S. News & World Report: The man who sees the future Doug Engelbart built the mouse; he may alter computing again: short, well written story.
  
• 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.
  
• Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia: Douglas C. Engelbart Medium-long biography and explanation of his many accomplishments; many useful links.
  
• Dr. Dobb's Journal: A Conversation With Doug Engelbart Medium-long interview: worthwhile, covers history and Engelbart's current views.
  
• Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
  
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples.
  
• SiliconValley.com: The Mouse Douglas Engelbart's early ideas about computing, like those of other valley pioneers, were way out there; 30 years later, the rest of us are catching on. Warm, sympathetic reasonably long piece; good pictures.
  
• 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.
  
• Liquid Information Organization: Douglas Engelbart Audio Glossary May be the most extensive set of Web-based Engelbart audio files. Intended to facilitate a casual atmosphere. Despite being called a glossary, it is really a fireside talk on different topics, not a lecture or reference work.