Brief biography of Douglas Engelbart and cartoon.
Influence on Engelbart of the ideas of Vannevar Bush. (Reference: "As We May Think")
* inset - quote from Vannevar Bush
The 'Memex' and 'associative indexing'.
Engelbart's decision about his goal in life (Reference: letter from Engelbart to Bush)
Engelbart's first paper published in the SRI Journal. (Reference: Facets of the Technical Information Problem)
* inset - quote from Engelbart 1958
Foundation of Augmentation Research Centre (Reference: Augmenting Human Intellect: An Intellectual Framework)
Concept of 'bootstrapping'.
NLS (oNLine System) - first example of groupware. (Reference: Bootstrap Institute - NLS features)
The NLS Journal - used hypermedia for navigation.
SRI - second node on the ARPANET.
NLS - foundation for Network Information Centre (NIC) for co-ordination of RFCs. (Reference: RFC 2555)
* inset - quote from Engelbart 1968
"The Mother of all Demos" (Reference: The Mother of all Demos - including video clips)
Debut of the "mouse" (Reference: Douglas Engelbart - Father of the Mouse)
Engelbart encountered great deal of negativity from colleagues
'Mainframe mentality' - his ideas were too radical to accept given available technology.
Engelbart used concept of 'information space'
- developed bitmapping, direct manipulation of onscreen objects, mouse as tool for manipulation
Graphical User Interface and WYSIWYG
- use of the desktop metaphor
- associative indexing' and hypermedia
- hypertext used by browser to access World Wide Web
Engelbart's ideas slow to reach fruition - contributions to computing technology overlooked.
Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution December 1998. (Reference: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution)
* inset - quote from Andy van Dam
- quote from Alan Kay
- quote from Andy van Dam
- quote from Paul Saffo
- quote from Jeff Rulifson
- quote from Tim Berners-Lee (Reference: TBL Press FAQ)
Character of Engelbart - "single minded", naive, idealistic
* inset - quote from Engelbart 1994
Engelbart's Achievements - highlights - Lemelson-MIT Prize 1997 and National Medal for Technology 2000. (Reference: Bootstrap Institute - Engelbart CV, MIT, Bootstrap Institute)
Augmented Knowledge Workshop (Reference: Bootstrap Institute)
Bootstrap Institute 1989 and Bootstrap Alliance. (Reference: Bootstrap Institute)
Open Hyperdocument System (Reference: Bootstrap Institute)
* inset - quote Robert X. Cringeley from "Accidental Empires"
Engelbart's ideas foresaw huge change in way humans functioned.
* inset - quote from Tia O'Brien, Silicon Valley interview
Engelbart - refusal to compromise - no real desire to be rich
Humanist views - wanted to benefit mankind (Reference: Brilliant Careers - www.salon.com)
Concepts formulated decades ago now being absorbed into mainstream computing.
Engelbart continuing to work - maintaining his far-reaching vision of future. (Reference: Bootstrap Institute - Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware)
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