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	Ted Nelson
		Ted Nelson is a somewhat controversial figure in the computing world.
		Nelson was raised by his grandparents in Greenwich Village, New York.
		Nelson did not complete the project, but he continued to work on it after that semester and it became the overriding concern of his life.
	www.ibiblio.org /pioneers/nelson.html (474 words)

	Ted Nelson - The Encyclopedia
		Nelson claims some aspects of his vision are in the process of being fulfilled by Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web.
		Nelson is working on a new information structure, ZigZag, which is described on the Xanadu project website, which also hosts two versions of the Xanadu code.
		Nelson earned a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1959, a Master's degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1963 and a Doctorate in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2002.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Ted_Nelson (706 words)

	Ted Nelson - Hypertext, Xanadu, Web History
		Ted Nelson's mother was an actress, and his father was a director.
		Nelson's first job was as a photographer and film editor at a Miami laboratory where John Lilly was carrying out research on the intelligence of dolphins, using LINC microcomputers to analyze their talking, as fascinated by acoustics as J.C.R. Licklider.
		Nelson has continued to develop his theory, and instantiates it with Project Xanadu, a high-performance hypertext system that assures the identity of references to objects, and solves the problems of configuration management and copyright control.
	www.livinginternet.com /w/wi_nelson.htm (0 words)

	Feature
		Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
		Nelson's left hand was on the wheel, his right rested casually on the back of the front seat.
		Nelson's life is so full of unfinished projects that it might fairly be said to be built from them, much as lace is built from holes or Philip Johnson's glass house from windows.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html?person=ted_nelson&topic_set=wiredpeople (676 words)

	cmf2006: Speaker - Ted Nelson
		Ted is currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, and a philosopher who works in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces.
		In 2001, Ted was knighted by France as "Officier des Arts et Lettres".
		Ted earned a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1959, a Master's degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1963, and a Doctorate in Environmental Information from Keio University in 2002.
	cmf2006.dk /ted_nelson (0 words)

	howard rheingold's \| tools for thought
		Ted Nelson is one of the most outrageous and probably the funniest of the infonauts.
		Ted Nelson was another one of the few people who saw the personal augmentation potential of computers early in the game and grasped the significance of the work being done at Utah, SRI,
		Ted Nelson started his often lonely and always stubbornly unique intellectual journey when he first realized what they were trying to do to him in school.
	www.rheingold.com /texts/tft/14.html (8951 words)

	Cybertext Forbear: Ted Nelson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Theodor Nelson's "Opening Hypertext: A Personal Memoir," as a summation of his considerations of the first thirty years of hypertext and hypermedia, informs readers on multiple levels.
		This is how, Nelson writes, "we maintain, with utter clarity of origin and convenience, the sources of every fragment: transcluding all the portions that are still there and making whatever changes the new context requires." (56) A textuality, as such, echoes a condition that predates the technologically dominant era.
		At present, it is clear that practical manifestations of Nelson's vision of hypermedia now exist in Hypervideo, Virtual Poetry, Holopoetry, and other new appearances of new media poetry as it is introduced by Eduardo Kac in Visible Language 30.2 and elsewhere.
	web.njit.edu /~funkhous/2000/698/nelson2.html (2100 words)

	Does Ted Nelson want us to change the way we think
		Ted Nelson has already been recognized in print as one of the great geniuses of computer history.
		Some say there is a risk that Nelson will eventually be remembered by the derogatory remarks of those who either cannot grasp his vision of human liberation through the use of computer tools and concepts to revolutionize human dialog, or who can appreciate the vision but are threatened by or jealous of it.
		Let the record reflect that Ted Nelson, like Galileo before him, had his detractors, but they ultimately only underscore his genius with their efforts to belittle it.
	www.bflrc.com /dls/does_ted_nelson_want_us_to_chang.htm (802 words)

	1996 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Ted Nelson Transcript
		Ted Nelson: To answer your question, the caching issue is an optimization issue and I am sure that services will, if this works, pop up.
		Ted Nelson: Transclusion: you are simulating and enacting and bringing about a situation in which all instances can be regarded as the master.
		Ted Nelson: The point is that obviously this is a combination of social, legal, economic and technical issues.
	www.almaden.ibm.com /almaden/npuc97/1996/tnelson.htm (3450 words)

	Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
		From these influences, Nelson began his quest to build creative tools that would transform the way we read and write, and in 1963 he coined the words "hypertext" and "hypermedia" to describe the new paradigms that these tools would make possible.
		Nelson was particularly concerned with the complex nature of the creative impulse, and he saw the computer as the tool that would make explicit the interdependence of ideas, drawing out connections between literature, art, music and science, since, as he put it, everything is "deeply intertwingled."
		Nelson's critical breakthrough was to call for a system of non-sequential writing that would allow the reader to aggregate meaning in snippets, in the order of his or her choosing, rather than according to a pre-established structure fixed by the author.
	www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/timeline/Nelson.html (224 words)

	Cybertext Forbear: Ted Nelson
		We are distant from Nelson's ultimate vision of, "a grand open hypertext system that will let anyone explore all the ideas there are in the world, as expounded by those who believe in them and with all the color and vitality that belong to that exposition" (51).
		Its unifying structure is known as "transclusion," wherein the integrity of original materials is maintained in a discrete location, yet users of the system are able to access and borrow from these materials as needed.
		This is how, Nelson writes, "we maintain, with utter clarity of origin and convenience, the sources of every fragment: transcluding all the portions that are still there and making whatever changes the new context requires" (56).
	web.njit.edu /~funkhous/nelson2.html (2236 words)

	A Graph-Theoretic Introduction to Ted Nelson's Zzstructures, by McGuffin
		Nelson claims [14] that zzstructures are a generalization of his 1965 zipper lists [4].
		Nelson [14,17] describes a 2D cursor-centric viewing scheme that makes use of 2 spatial dimensions at a time, and locally "flattens" a subset of the neighbourhood around a cursor (i.e.
		Nelson gives a similar example of one dimension being mapped to both axes of a 2D view [14].
	www.dgp.utoronto.ca /~mjmcguff/research/zigzag (6127 words)

	Ted Nelson and Xanadu
		Nelson then goes on to talk about xanalogical storage, humbers, the docuverse, and tumbler arithmetic, not exactly making it easy for the general readership to understand his ideas.
		Xanalogical storage, which Nelson later termed transclusion, describes the ability to make a virtual copy of part of one document, for inclusion in a second document.
		Nelson's understanding of copyright, as it currently exists, is flawed.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /elab/hfl0155.html (913 words)

	if:book: ted nelson & the ideologies of documents
		Nelson's criticism Ted Nelson (introduced last week by Ben) is a lonely revolutionary marching a lonely march, and whenever he's in the news mockery is heard.
		Ted Nelson (introduced last week by Ben) is a lonely revolutionary marching a lonely march, and whenever he's in the news mockery is heard.
		Nelson starts from the position that attempting to simulate paper with computers is a mistaken idea.
	www.futureofthebook.org /blog/archives/2005/10/ted_nelson_the_1.html (3140 words)

	Week beginning 17 December 2000 (Interconnected archives)
		Nelson is an interesting character from this perspective, especially as my own world view resonates strongly with the network/interconnectedness metaphor.
		Ted Nelson's homepage is a good hub of personal information and his current projects.
		Nelson's Computing Paradigm expressed as one-liners come as close as anything else I've seen to explaining his world view.
	interconnected.org /home/2000/12/week/17 (0 words)

	G4 - Feature - Ted Nelson, Hypertext Pioneer
		Ted Nelson foresaw long ago that millions of people would be publishing hypertext, anarchically and without restriction, on a world-wide network.
		Nelson was trying to create something like the Web in scale, but more stable and structured.
		Nelson is also delivering software of his own design.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/4605/Ted_Nelson_Hypertext_Pioneer.html (743 words)

	Joho the Blog: [Oxford] Ted Nelson
		Ted Nelson is giving a talk to about twenty people at the Oxford Internet Institute.
		Nelson says that Yeager later said "I could have gone orbital, but they told me not to." This was in 1947.
		Ted conditioned his claim by saying that he was told this by someone who heard it first-hand from Yeager and that he (Ted) trusts the veracity of his source.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/oxford_ted_nelson.html (1703 words)

	Ted Nelson Information Protocol Information Page - ted-nelson
		Ted NelsonTheodor Holm Nelson (born circa 1939) invented the term "hypertext" in 1965, and is a pioneer of information technology.
		Nelson is currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, and a philosopher who works in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces.
		Nelson dislikes the World Wide Web, XML and all embedded markup, and regards Berners-Lee's work as a gross over-simplification of his own work.
	www.infotechloco.com /Ted-Nelson.htm (518 words)

	Ted Nelson - Bio
		Ted Nelson is presently a Research Fellow at the Sapporo HyperLab and Hokkaido University.
		Nelson is best known for coining the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" (1965) and predicting vast anarchic network publishing, but today's World Wide Web is only part of what he has sought to build.
		Nelson insists that tranclusions are a vital complement to links, the equivalent of being able to put an object in different places at once.
	www.be-in.com /9/areas/mind_meld/nelson/bio (300 words)

	mprove: Ted Nelson's Bibliography
		Steven Carmody, Walter Gross, Theodor H. Nelson, David Rice, and Andries van Dam.
		Ted Nelson, Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin: Computer Graphics as a Way of Life.
		About Ted Nelson in ICU Digital Media Lab Blog (Korean)
	www.mprove.de /diplom/referencesNelson.html (0 words)

	Ted nelson regarding "hyper-text" 1965 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term was hyphenated in the article and is remembered as such by former Nelson student and Vassar alumna, Cynthia Fontayne, in an interview.
		Unless there was an appearance in print during January, 1965, or unless Nelson is mistaken about when he coined the term, Vassar seems to have a good claim to the site of its first appearance in print.
		Ted Nelson's long dream of the Xanadu hypertext system has recently been open-sourced..
	faculty.vassar.edu /mijoyce/Ted_sed.html (147 words)

	Ted Nelson's two-way links
		Matt's notes on Ted Nelson's speech were especially interesting.
		Ted Nelson is a legend in the Web world - he invented hypertext in the 1960's and his Xanadu project was an inspiration for the World Wide Web.
		But Ted Nelson is, and always has been, waaay ahead of his time.
	www.readwriteweb.com /archives/ted_nelsons_two.php (559 words)

	Ted Nelson - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson, whose dramatic flair sets him apart from most of his contemporaries, was to the cinematic manner born.
		Nelson named his electronic publishing system Xanadu, which just happened to be Charles Foster Kane's pleasure palace in the Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane.
		Nelson is not an engineer; instead, he came into the world of computers from the foreign soil of the humanities, and he bemoans the fact that engineers have taken the fluidity and spontaneity out of digital information systems.
	www.forbes.com /asap/1997/0825/134.html (916 words)

	Technology Review: Ted Nelson's Big Step
		All during his pursuit of Xanadu, Nelson took it for granted that it would be implemented.
		Ted Nelson has his first nonvirtual software, and that will certainly enhance his credibility--although some will hold him to higher expectations.
		Although Nelson is now delivering his vision in smaller, easier-to-comprehend programming units, the size of his ambition hasn't changed.
	www.technologyreview.com /InfoTech/11738/page3 (364 words)

	Ted Nelson's ZigZag \| Lambda the Ultimate
		Ted Nelson handed me one of the original diskettes, wrapped in a triangular origami pouch of grey letter paper (complete with egregious claims and a high-contrast image of Ted's face).
		Ted Nelson's life appears to be like the movie "Groundhog Day", wherein the protagonist relives the same day again and again.
		In Ted Nelson's version, his contributions to hypertext are repeatedly relived; in each iteration others' attention, approval and credit are sought.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/view/233 (1744 words)

	Ted Nelson
		Ted Nelson's writing reminds me of the alternative history science fiction of Philip K. Dick, whose novel, "The Man in the High Castle," described a United States which lost WWII to Germany and Japan.
		Ted Nelson points toward interactive software synthesizing disparate media, breaking them down to their most basic form.
		Ralph Nelson, was perhaps the most successful director of the golden age of live television drama in the 1950s.
	illuminationgallery.net /wr/hypertext/nelson.html (4759 words)

	Internet Time Blog: Ted Nelson, way out
		Like the fish that is unaware of water, Ted Nelson says computer users are blind to the 2D tyranny of paper.
		Ted always provokes in a way only a revolution could solve his identified problems at one stroke.
		Ted's mother was Celeste Holm, the talented actress, and I think part of Ted is the result of actor DNA.
	www.internettime.com /blog/archives/001278.html (1997 words)

	Ted Nelson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nelson is best known for having coined the term "hypertext" in the mid-1960's.
		He proposed it as a system to "permit the user to read and write in a nonlinear manner." (Burton, Moore and Holmes 347) He further elaborated upon the concept in his books Dream Machines (1974) and Literary Machines (1981).
		It is not surprising that Nelson has embraced hypertext, a system he describes as allowing one "to read in all the directions you wish to pursue...[with] alternate pathways for people who think in different ways," (qtd.
	www.geocities.com /amensoccer/hyper/nelson.html (304 words)

	Orality and Hypertext: An Interview with Ted Nelson
		In 1960, Ted Nelson invented computer-based hypertext for a term project while a graduate student at Harvard, and thereafter became increasingly consumed with his vision of global hypertext, which he called the Xanadu system.
		Even though Nelson is not one to mince words, the intensity of his email message still took us by surprise.
		Digging out our Wired, we read through the offending article, and had to agree: the article is indeed a carefully crafted slam of Nelson and Xanadu (the article can be accessed via the WWW at http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.06/features/xanadu.html).
	www.ics.uci.edu /~ejw/csr/nelson_pg.html (1854 words)

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