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Introduction: Who is Douglas Engelbart?

Douglas Engelbart
Permission to use granted by Andy F. Mesa of the Apple Museum

The Godfather By G. Pascal Zachary for Wired Magazine
Copyright © 1993-2001 The Condé Nast Publications Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1994-2001 Wired Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.

"As we May Think" Copyright © 1945 by Vannevar Bush. All rights reserved.
Source: The Atlantic Monthly; July, 1945; Volume 176, No. 1; pages 101-108.

Vannevar Bush
Source:- Superkids Educational Software Review

Letter from Douglas Engelbart to Vannevar Bush dated 24th May 1962.
Source: The Mousesite Archive of Engelbart Papers, held by Stanford University Special Collections

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Section 1: The Achievements of Douglas Engelbart

"Facets of the Technical Information Problem" Charles P. Bourne & Douglas C. Engelbart, SRI Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1958. Reprinted in The Magazine of DATAMATION, September/October 1958 (AUGMENT,133180,).
Source: The Mousesite Archive of Engelbart Papers, held by Stanford University Special Collections

"A Research Centre for Augmenting Human Intellect" by C. Engelbart, and William K. English
AFIPS Conference Proceedings of the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 1968, Vol. 33, pp. 395-410 (AUGMENT,3954,).
Source: The Mousesite Archive of Engelbart Papers held by Stanford University Special Collections

oNLine System at SRI
Source: SiliconValley.com

NLS TELECONFERENCING FEATURES: The Journal, and Shared-Screen Telephoning
Douglas C. Engelbart, Augmentation Research Center, Stanford Research Institute 29-Jul-75 12:43 (AUGMENT,33076,)
Copyright © 1991-1996, Bootstrap Institute. All rights reserved.

Title: "30 Years of RFCs"
Request for Comments: 2555.       Category: Informational.      Date: 7 April 1999.
Network Working Group. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Source: Internet RFC/STD/FYI/BCP Archives

1968 Demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco.
Source: The Mousesite Archive of Engelbart Papers held by Stanford University Special Collections

Article by Andrew Maisel "Douglas Engelbart - Father of the Mouse"
Source: Superkids Educational Software Review website.

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Section 2: His Impact on the IT Industry

IBM 704 mainframe computer
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Bitmapping Review of 'Interface Culture' by Steven Johnson.
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, USA

Design of the Conceptual Model" Bringing Design to Software by Terry Winograd © Addison-Wesley, 1996

Evolving The Organization Of The Future: A Point Of View
Douglas C. Engelbart, Tymshare, Inc. March 1980 (AUGMENT,80360,)
Copyright © 1991-1996, Bootstrap Institute. All rights reserved.

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Section 3: A True Visionary

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanford University, December 9, 1998
Source: Stanford University Libraries

Tim Berners-Lee: A Press FAQ
Source:- The World Wide Web Consortium

CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart.
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COMPUTER PIONEER WINS LEMELSON-MIT PRIZE
Computer Trailblazer Douglas Engelbart Receives Half-Million Dollars for Invention and Innovation
Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

President Clinton and Douglas Engelbart
Source: The Bootstrap Institute

America's highest technology award for Doug Engelbart
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The man who sees the future Doug Engelbart built the mouse; he may alter computing again
Source: usnews.com

"The Augmented Knowledge Workshop" Douglas C. Engelbart, Richard W. Watson, James C. Norton, Stanford Research Institute 1-Mar-73 14:07 (AUGMENT,14724,)
Copyright © 1991-1996, Bootstrap Institute. All rights reserved.

The Bootstrap Institute" towards high-performance teamwork.
Source: The Bootstrap Institute

Frequently Asked Questions"
Source: The Bootstrap Alliance

The Open Hyperdocument System Home Page
Copyright ©1995-2000, Bootstrap Alliance. All rights reserved.

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Conclusions

Of Mice, Men + Machines Article by Andrew Leonard for the 'Brilliant Careers' Series.
Source:- salon.com Copyright © 2000 Salon.com All rights reserved.

Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware
Douglas C. Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute, June 1992 (AUGMENT,132811,)
Copyright © 1991-1996, Bootstrap Institute. All rights reserved.

Douglas Engelbart speaking to an audience
Source: The History of Computing Project

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Additional Sources

1998 Interview with Douglas Engelbart by Tia O'Brien for SiliconValley.com
© 2001 SiliconValley.com.

Conceptualizing Cyberspace: Interface Technology
© The University of New Brunswick, Canada

Review of Interface Culture by Steven Johnson.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, USA.

"Tools for Thought" by Howard Rheingold. Chapter 9: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker.
©1985 howard rheingold, all rights reserved worldwide.

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