Douglas Engelbart in a Flow of Inspirations

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article featured imageDouglas Engelbart in a Flow of Inspirations OIINEWS | Dec 10, 2021 | Bill Dutton “The mouse was one concrete invention that arose from his Augmented Human Intelligence Research Center [...] where he and a small group of colleagues began developing the NLS, [pioneering] the use of computing to complement human intelligence, what he called “augmented intelligence” rather than artificial intelligence (AI)." While Engelbart was in part inspired by Vannevar Bush through his article ‘As We May Think’, Engelbart in turn inspired others, such as Ted Nelson of Hypertext and Xanadu fame.