AI visionary named first Engelbart Distinguished Fellow
“The Australian National University's Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell has been named the world's inaugural Engelbart Distinguished Fellow by SRI International for her trailblazing work on technology, artificial intelligence and culture.”
Also reported in: ComputerWorld | iTWire | PRNewswire | Mirage News
Internet Pioneer’s Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological
Internet Pioneer's Greatest Contribution May Not Be Technological
“Doug Engelbart's greatest breakthrough may be to change how we think, how we learn and innovate, and how we collaborate." The Internet Hall of Fame featured profile on this 2014 Inductee, including how one university is putting his vision to practice in an experimental MOOC and associated Engelbart Scholar Award program.
IBM Think Poster features Doug Engelbart Quote
IBM Think Poster features Doug Engelbart Quote
“Payoff will come when we make better use of computers to bring communities of people together and to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems." -- Douglas Engelbart, 2002, from his paper Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future. For background see IBM Invite You to Think. See also the Artist's note.
Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees
Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees
“The Internet Hall of Fame welcomes 2014 Inductees at ceremony in Hong Kong... For his visionary work related to networking and the foundations of the information age, Doug Engelbart was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame." Further details on this posthumous award, see Doug Engelbart inducted into Internet Hall of Fame.
Celebrating friendship and the computer mouse in Southeast Portland
Celebrating friendship and the computer mouse in Southeast Portland
“The Engelbarts were part of a tight-knit collection of six families whose children grew up together near Johnson Creek. The kids attended the same schools, picked beans together in the summer and used their spending money to ride the streetcar to Oaks Park for weekend roller-skating.”
70+ years later, Doug's childhood friends returned to the site of their grade school, and dedicated a placque in his honor to inspire future generations, to know that "somebody who walked those halls, somebody raised in these rural and working-class neighborhoods, literally changed the world."
Doug Engelbart to receive Weatherford Award
Doug Engelbart to receive Weatherford Award: Entrepreneurship, innovation honored at awards ceremony
“The Weatherford Awards are a celebration of some of Oregon's most innovative business owners and visionaries. The award recipients have been selected for their ... innovations that have had a sustaining social and/or economic impact. ”
See also the official Award Citation, as well as for this and other awards he has received. Engelbart Awards & Honors for this and other awards he has received.
Global Knowledge Renaissance: World Library Summit 2002
Global Knowledge Renaissance: Selected Papers from the World Library Summit 2002
Compiled and edited by National Library Board Singapore | Times Books International, 2003 | Papers cover the broad themes of knowledge augmentation, cultural entrepreneurship and knowledge governance, including Doug Engelbart's keynote "Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future"
See Preview Doug's Keynote | Doug's IDG Award
A Worthy Prize Winner: Doug Engelbart
A Worthy Prize Winner: Doug Engelbart
"Technology still hasn't caught up to Doug's vision for the future." -- Bob Haavind, Editor-in-Chief. "The 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize, worth $500,000, was awarded during a ceremony at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. to Douglas Engelbart, a hands-on engineer/inventor who was instrumental in the development of networking and the personal computer. There could not be a more deserving winner of this prestigious award than this unassuming, brilliant visionary."
Of Mouse and Man
Of Mouse and Man
“In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.” -- Douglas Engelbart, upon receiving the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the crown jewel of inventor prizes, in New York last week.
Visit Engelbart Awards for details.
Innovations of ’87
Innovations of '87
Awards presented at COMDEX'87: “Each year at this time, tens of thousands of people who make, sell, buy or use personal computers descend into Las Vegas for the Fall Comdex trade show... Each year, PC Magazine honors designers, engineers and programmers whose work influences virtually everybody who uses a personal computer.. In addition to the 1987 PC Magazine Awards for Technical Excellence, honoring the top innovators across a variety of categories, The award for lifetime achievement went to Douglas Englebart, the father of the mouse, creator of windows and champion of the user interface.”
See also Engelbart Awards for details on this and other honors
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