Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century
In this Podcast, “we look back to the man who wanted to augment human intelligence to help us work together to solve the world's most complex problems, and in doing so invented the 21st Century. How do we get smart enough to solve the really difficult problems? Douglas Engelbart said "the better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better" where our problem-solving abilities are constantly improved, and therefore so is everything we do!"
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The Public Debut of a Dream
The Public Debut of a Dream
“Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” 60 Years On: In October, 1962, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart published a document that synthesized over a decade of research and careful thought, a document that would illuminate the work he would do for the rest of his career. 'Augmenting Human Intellect' is both a research report and a visionary manifesto for how computers and human beings could co-evolve to foster the highest levels of human flourishing. Engelbart sought to empower humanity’s capabilities to address its most complex problems, and he saw networked computing as an essential part of that capability...”
75 Years of Innovation: Computer Vision
75 Years of Innovation: Computer Vision
“SRI International has contributed to the blurring of the boundaries between humans and computers [...] From the humble computer mouse to augmented reality and computer vision, SRI has made computing more human, more compelling, and widened the scope of its use for the good of humanity.”
From the series 75 years of innovation at SRI International
We need a humanitarian vision for AI and robotics
We need a humanitarian vision for AI and robotics
“Back in 1962, Doug Engelbart hypothesized that the future of our race lay not in replacing humans but in augmenting them...”
75 Years of Innovation: The Computer Mouse
75 Years of Innovation: The Computer Mouse
“A major development in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) driving the advent of more accessible and controllable consumer computers. [...] Engelbart was a visionary. He saw a world where human evolution tracked technological advances and vice versa — the two intrinsically linked and working in synchronicity.”
From the series 75 years of innovation at SRI International
Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution
Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution
“Engelbart’s ideas revolutionized computing and helped shape the modern world. [...] To Engelbart, computers, interfaces, and networks were means to a more important end—amplifying human intelligence to help us survive in the world we’ve created.”
Remembering Doug Engelbart, with two talks about his visionary work
Remembering Doug Engelbart, with two talks about his visionary work
“Engelbart was one of those people who imagined the possibility of the Internet as a place where people could work together and push humanity forward. He was ahead of his time not only in what he invented, but in how he thought about the process of creation. Digital collaboration, crowdsourcing, group innovation — these are concepts Engelbart championed 60 years ago that are still relevant (yet, importantly, not a matter of course) today.”
References: The Demo | Ian Ritchie TED Talk | Peter Hirshberg TED Talk | Augmenting Human Intellect
Doug Engelbart – visionary who foresaw the modern internet and created the mouse
Doug Engelbart, the visionary who foresaw the modern internet and created the mouse, dies aged 88
“Engelbart was one of the first great computer visionaries, and perhaps the first to envision a future where computers, and more importantly networks of computers, augment human intellect.”
CHM Fellow Douglas C. Engelbart
CHM Fellow Douglas C. Engelbart
“His goal was building systems to augment human intelligence. His group prototyped much of modern computing (and invented the mouse) along the way...”
Originally published in Jul 2013, updated extensively Dec 2018.
Gadgets the Pentagon Made
Gadgets the Pentagon Made -- From the Microwave to the New iPhone Siri
“From the mouse and hypertext, to the internet and Siri, "Innovations that began with the U.S.' well-funded defense establishment almost always filter down into commercial, mundane usage. Sometimes in unexpected ways. Here are some of our favorite examples" Doug Engelbart contributed to #1 and #8 out of the 8.”
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
“Tracing the fertile series of collaborations between arts and sciences throughout the twentieth century, Randall Packer and Ken Jordan present the often overlooked history behind multimedia―the interfaces, links, and interactivity we all take for granted today.”
Includes pioneers Licklider, Engelbart, Kay and more. See also [ WIRED Review | Table of Contents | Teacher's Guide ]
BOOK: Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
“In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.” The chapter on Doug is Chapter Nine: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker. First published in 1985, the 2000 edition incorporates 1999 interviews with the principals.See listing at MIT Press.
How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
"By building a machine that worked more like the human mind than any existing tools, Vannevar Bush hoped to help people think. Bush died in 1974, too early for the WW, but not too early to have seen his idea of a personal computer capable of associative rather than hierarchical links realized. The man behind that realization was Doug Engelbart." Describes Doug Engelbart's early career, his human-centered Augmenting Human Intellect program, NLS, the Demo, influence on Alan Kay and Andy van Dam, ... pp. 93-100, 103, 104, 118, 123, 131, 171, 186, 193, 265, 307.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men: The mouse is but a small part of Doug Engelbart’s larger quest
“An ambitious plan conceived by a truly extraordinary man — Instead of tackling a specific problem, he decided to go about changing the way we dealt with problems, the better to improve the world. He saw that many problems were so complex that it was often beyond human capabilities to solve them. Somehow Doug Engelbart decided to improve – augment is the word he came to use – man’s capabilities to cope with those problems..”
Appeared in Popular Computing Magazine, May 1984, pp. 70, 75-78 | Illustration by Richard Cowdrey
No More Pencils, No More Books — Write and Read Electronically
No More Pencils, No More Books -- Write and Read Electronically
"In 1957, Douglas Engelbart set out to give humanity something better than paper and pencil for working out solutions to its problems. Not a specific problem, mind you, but all problems. This idea gnawed within him for seven years and led him to the Stanford Research Institute [where he] established what is now called the Augmentation Research Center."
Part of a special issue titled: Here Comes the Tuned-In, Wired-Up, Plugged-In, Hyperarticulate Speed-of-Light Society - An Electronics Special Report
(SRI-ARC Catalog Item XDOC 9705)
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