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On the Web
- Douglas Engelbart - Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
- 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart - A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) 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.
- 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.
- Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution - Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart - At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
Wikipedia Articles
- Douglas Engelbart - | birth_place = Portland, Oregon
- NLS (computer system) - NLS, or the "oNLine System", was a revolutionary computer collaboration system designed by Douglas Engelbart and the researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the 1960s. The NLS system was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext links, the mouse (co-invented by Engelbart and colleague Bill English), raster-scan video monitors, information ...
- The Mother of All Demos - The Mother of All Demos is the name often given to Douglas Engelbart's December 9 1968 demonstration at the Convention Center in San Francisco. At the Fall Joint Computer Conference, Engelbart, with the help of his geographically distributed team, demonstrated the workings of the NLS (which stood for oNLine System) to the 1,000 computer professionals in attendance.
- William English (computer engineer) - William "Bill" English is a computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center. He left SRI in 1971 and headed to Xerox Parc, where he managed the Office Systems Research Group.
- Augmentation Research Center - Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) was founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing. The main product to come out of ARC was the revolutionary oN-Line System, better known by its odd abbreviation, NLS.