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  Douglas Engelbart -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in (A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific) Oregon) is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (Someone who is the first to think of or make something) inventor of (Click link for more info and facts about Norwegian descent) Norwegian descent.
Engelbart's philosophy and research agenda is most clearly and directly expressed in the 1962 research report which Engelbart refers to as his 'bible':.
Engelbart later revealed that it was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/douglas_engelbart.htm   (1088 words)

  
 Inventing Modern America: Vision - Doug Engelbart
Engelbart sat at a computer console and spoke into an ear-mounted headset while his face was video-projected onto a screen behind him.
Engelbart was moving it with a peculiar device under his right hand, a chunky, square box with a few buttons, tethered to the machine with a cord.
Born in Oregon in 1925, Engelbart was the grandson of Western pioneers and the son of a radio store owner and a mother who, he remembers, was "quite sensitive, and artistic." His father passed away when he was only nine, and the family's finances were tight.
web.mit.edu /invent/www/ima/engelbart_bio.html   (1236 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Doug Engelbart
Engelbart received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1948, a Bachelor of Engineering degree from UC Berkeley in 1952, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1955.
Historian of science Thierry Bardini has persuasively argued that Engelbart's complex personal philosophy (which drove all his research endeavors) foreshadowed the modern application of the concept of coevolution to the philosophy and use of technology.
SRI's management, which disapproved of Engelbart's approach to running the center, placed the remains of ARC under the control of artificial intelligence researcher Bert Raphael, who fired Engelbart (from the lab that Engelbart had founded) in 1976.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Doug-Engelbart   (1134 words)

  
 Doug Engelbart 1968 DEMO
Doug switches to Menlo Park where the image of the CRT that is generating the text view on the console image that is being viewed by the audience on the auditorium screen.
Doug describes a project within the Augmentation Research Center to study and develop their own system of management tools to organize and manage the work of the 17 people in the group.
Doug muses that with the planned band width of 20KB per second and delay times with less than one-tenth of a second, he might be able to show the present demo again next year from Boston.
web.media.mit.edu /~jackylee/doug.htm   (1648 words)

  
 howard rheingold's | tools for thought
Doug Engelbart's voice, as he greets you, is low and soft, as though muted from having traveled a long distance, as though his words have been attenuated by layers of meditation.
Doug was alone on the stage, the screen looming above and behind him as he sat in front of his CRT display, wearing the kind of earphone-microphone headsets that radar operators and jet pilots use, his hands resting on an unusual-looking control console connected to his chair.
Doug had always warned that "the larger augmentation system is much more complex than the technological 'subsystem' upon which it depends," and the 1970s were the era when ARC began to practice what Engelbart had preached.
www.rheingold.com /texts/tft/9.html   (10717 words)

  
 Gregor J. Rothfuss: doug engelbart on Large-Scale Collective IQ
doug moved to the bay area in 1948 and had a life-changing epiphany that he had no goals in his career.
The example doug used was that if you were a thousand times heavier you would not be a thousand times stronger, but only a hundert times because strength scales differently.
Doug also mentions a sample of the increasing complexity of world problems: The State of the Future which appears every year.
greg.abstrakt.ch /archives/2004/11/doug_engelbart.html   (303 words)

  
 Bootstrap Institute: About BI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The OHS's initial design specifications are a result of 50 years of innovation and experimentation by Doug Engelbart and his team of researchers among a variety of user communities, including aerospace and software development.
A ten-week colloquium held at, and webcast from Stanford University early in 2000 provided Doug Engelbart with an opportunity to present his motivation and thought in the context of the professional views of 30-plus guest speakers who are currently working the frontiers of society, technology, business, and urgent concerns of people around the world.
It is essentially these perceptions that have underlain the researches by Engelbart and his team, work that laid to many innovations in computing and is now continuing in the development of an open hyperdocument system.
www.bootstrap.org   (2035 words)

  
 douglas engelbart
Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute founder and Director, has an unparalleled 30-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing.
Engelbart was drafted at the end of his sophomore year, and took a test the Navy had designed to identify individuals with interest in RADAR technology.
Doug Engelbart lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife of over 40 years and two cats, and in close proximity to all 4 children and 8 grandchildren.
www.thocp.net /biographies/engelbart_douglas.html   (2584 words)

  
 Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
Doug Engelbart's presentation at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of the pioneering work that Engelbart's group had been doing at SRI.
For example, the list of things which Engelbart had to do later was organized as a graphical map of the locations where he would have to go, connected by the route he would take.
Engelbart's research team developed the mouse to navigate and manipulate the system, and a one-handed chording keyboard so the user could still perform commands and type input while using the mouse (a luxury that we still don't have today).
www.cs.brown.edu /stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html   (697 words)

  
 Contents
Engelbart's aim is to give help in manipulating any of the concepts that the individual usefully symbolizes in his work, of which mathematical concepts constitute only a limited portion in most real-life instances.
Engelbart elaborates on the methodology behind "bootstrapping" and discusses a functional model of a trained human, with his Language, Artifacts and Methodology, as the problem-solving system whose effectiveness the program is aimed to improve.
Doug Engelbart's patent, filed June 21, 1967, disclosed an X-Y position indicator control for movement by the hand over any surface to move a cursor over the display on a cathode ray tube, the indicator control generating signals indicating its position to cause a cursor to be displayed on the tube at the corresponding position.
sloan.stanford.edu /mousesite/EngelbartPapers/Contents.html   (4057 words)

  
 IM: DOUG ENGELBART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Doug Engelbart is one of the very great men of our time.
Doug's vision spans a great spectrum of what we need for the human mind and work: individual work, empowering workgroups, making human intellect more deeply powerful.
Doug foresaw that problem in the nineteen-sixties, and built a little keyboard on which he can type with one hand while he uses the mouse with the other.
www.aus.xanadu.com /ted/CLASSES.FALL98/IMdougpage.html   (306 words)

  
 Sep00: A Conversation With Doug Engelbart
Today, Engelbart is developing an open-source version of the next generation of his system for collaborative knowledge work, dubbed the "Open Hyperdocument System." His initial goal for the OHS is to help programmers collaboratively develop software, a problem that DDJ readers will agree is as complex as it gets.
Engelbart is currently director of the Bootstrap Institute (http://www.bootstrap.org/), which he founded in 1988 to help organizations learn how to improve their ability to solve complex problems using tools such as interactive computing.
Engelbart recently spoke with Eugene Eric Kim about his life's work and ways in which we can augment the collective human intellect.
www.oasis-open.org /cover/engelbartDDJ200009.html   (3113 words)

  
 TidBITS#459/14-Dec-98
Engelbart saw his many ideas and inventions as technical ends to a goal that also required progress in media, language, customs, knowledge, skills, and procedures.
Back in the 1950s, Engelbart realized that the rate of change in the world was increasing radically, and the complexity and urgency of the world's problems were increasing along the same lines.
Engelbart's lab was the second site on the ARPANET, and he was thrilled with the idea of using networked computers to foster cooperation and collaboration.
www.tidbits.com /tb-issues/TidBITS-459.html   (4107 words)

  
 Doug Engelbart's System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Engelbart, patiently instructing those outside [Stanford Research Institute], came up with a beautiful example.
The result, which was of course dreadful, Engelbart solemnly put into a published report.
As this poor guy was with his brickified pencil, explained Engelbart, so are we all among our bothersome, inflexible systems of paper.
www.tfh-berlin.de /~weberwu/ds/engelbart.html   (366 words)

  
 electric minds | tools for thought
While Engelbart was, in fact, suggesting that computers could be used to automate a low-level task like typewriting, the point he wanted to make had to do with changes n the overall system--the capabilities such an artifact would open up for thinking in a more effective, wider-ranging, more articulate, quicker, better-formatted manner.
Doug's painstakingly thought-out conceptual framework, the prototype hardware, systems he and Bill English developed, and his bootstrapping laboratory of systems programmers, computer engineers, psychologists, and media specialists were only corroborating what Doug had known for years--computers can help intellectual workers think better.
Doug Engelbart finally got his chance to take his peers--augmentation pioneers and number crunchers as well--on a flight through information space.
www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/tom_tools_9.html   (10768 words)

  
 Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution from Learnativity.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On December 9, 1998, Doug and many of the original team commemorated the 30th anniversary of the historic demo by meeting at Stanford to talk about what has happened in the last 30 years toward accomplishing the team's original goals.
Engelbart's ideas, while influential, were stymied by the conventional wisdom that the best use for computers was to automate office tasks.
Engelbart's description of the lack of interaction 48 years ago isn't that different than what we have produced recently.
www.learnativity.com /engelbart.html   (1634 words)

  
 DaveNet : Dinner with Doug Engelbart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Engelbart thought I had worked at Apple, I told him I never worked at Apple.
It may appear that the outliner approach is narrow, but I don't think it is. I think outliners mirror what's going on in our brains, they reflect the way we organize ideas, concepts and information.
I told Engelbart that our success with outliners came with people who understood the process of thinking.
davenet.scripting.com /2000/10/06/dinnerWithDougEngelbart   (801 words)

  
 000327 Called Doug Engelbart about record of meeting on 000324.
AJ1448 - Doug feels that the scale of the work to be performed, and cultural AJ1449 - viscosity that resists improving management, dictates Open Source AJ1450 - development to draw on a broad range of resources, as set out in AJ1451 - preliminary planning reported in the record of the meeting on 000324.
Doug advised he has not had AJ1486 - time to review POIMS and NWO, due to limited bandwidth, reported on AJ1487 - 000223, ref SDS 49 3774, but noted that nobody else has proposed AJ1488 - improving knowledge work by enhancing alphabet technology.
B123 - B12301 - She has received the letter to Doug, ref DIT 1 0001, transmitted the B12302 - corrected record for the meeting on 000324, ref SDS 63 0001, and she B12303 - sees the idea is for her to distribute this record to meeting B12304 - attendees.
www.welchco.com /sd/08/00101/02/00/03/27/094001.HTM   (7389 words)

  
 w4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While the rest of the hypertext research community treks up the hill for Doug Engelbart's opening keynote, we're watching Engelbart's famous Demo, which is often cited as the great computer demo of all time.
After dinner last night, I was talking with open source software engineering guru Walt Scacchi, and with Doug Engelbart, the guy who invented outliners, the mouse, and lots of other things you use all the time.
Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has started a blog: As a lifelong consumer of the written word displayed on paper, the prospect of talking to readers by way of a "blog" is a little unnerving.
w4.evectors.it /itEntDirectory/topic?topic=doug_engelbart   (5072 words)

  
 001027 Called Doug Engelbart on OHS Launch Plan; favorable comments on SDS.
251502 - 251503 - Called Doug to let him know that Millie and I cannot attend the social 251504 - event he is planning next week, reported in the meeting on 001017, 251505 - ref SDS 17 A28K, and which is set out in a Post Script of the letter 251506 - to Doug yesterday.
On 000223 Doug reported in a 251562 - letter on challenges of limited bandwidth when information overload 251563 - prevents people from using good management because there is not enough 251564 - time to think.
Doug said Pat Lincoln is 251647 - working hard on this, but he has a lot of other duties, which aligns 251648 - with the telecon on 001017.
www.welchco.com /sd/08/00101/02/00/10/27/090712.HTM   (1671 words)

  
 ColabWiki: Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart is best known as the inventor of the computer "mouse" although his most significant work to date is leadership of the team that developed NLS, the first collaborative hypertext system back in the 1960s.
Engelbart's many honors include the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the ACM Turing Award, the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the IEEE von Neumann Medal and the US National Medal of Technolgy.
Underlying his ongoing work is the basic concept of boosting our collective intelligence, and particularly boosting the collective IQ of communities working on improving society, or improving important capabilities which would make organizations and societies more effective.
colab.cim3.net /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DougEngelbart   (174 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | Of mice, men and machines
Engelbart explains that the seeming musical instrument is a "chordal keyboard," something he and his legendary team of computer researchers invented more than 30 years ago.
That system is what Engelbart refers to when he invokes "the future" -- and it is a future nearly as far away now as it was in 1951, when Engelbart first began strategizing the best way to boost human capabilities.
Engelbart is a leading torchbearer for the dream that computers can help change the world for the better.
www.salon.com /bc/1998/12/15bc.html   (443 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Douglas Engelbart Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor, of Norwegian descent.
He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, and is a pioneer of human-computer interaction, including GUIs, hypertext, and networked computers.
Engelbart was the primary force behind the design of the Stanford Research Institute's On-Line System, or NLS.
www.ipedia.com /douglas_engelbart.html   (324 words)

  
 CNN - Inventor of computer 'mouse' finally cashes a big check - Apr. 9, 1997
It was there that a vision of people sitting in front of a video screen, interacting with a computer, came to him.
Engelbart recalls the reason one computer company executive gave for ignoring the power of networking.
Now, Engelbart and his daughters run the Bootstrap Institute, helping companies and organizations build doorways to others in their fields.
www.cnn.com /TECH/9704/09/mouse.inventor   (508 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: History: Pioneers: Engelbart, Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart - At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
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.
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.
dmoz.org /Computers/History/Pioneers/Engelbart,_Douglas   (583 words)

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