Doug Engelbart: Developing the Underlying Concepts for Contemporary Computing
“What is missing from the current commercial descriptions of the Web is a discussion about the 30-year history of R&D that created the underlying technologies on which the Web is based. Much of this foundation was laid in the 1960s by Doug Engelbart. In 1968, he demonstrated his concept of “interactive computing” to a group of computer scientists, now considered a seminal event in the history of computing." Source: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Vol.19 Issue 3.
An evaluation of the AUGMENT system
An evaluation of the AUGMENT system
“For a period of nine months the author used AUGMENT, an electronic office support system. This paper is an evaluation of that system [available from Doug Engelbart's group at Tymshare, Inc.]”
Published in ACM SIGDOC '82: Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Systems Documentation, January 1982, pages 29–35.
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Tymshare’s AUGMENT heralding a new era
Tymshare's AUGMENT heralding a new era
“Many Augment customers are writers, scientists and programmers. Very often a group of geographically dispersed researchers who are working in related fields, or on the same project, will share their findings and comments with one another through the Augment system... they are professionals and technicians who are members of a common (electronic) community. For these professionals, the Augment system is not viewed as a tool to avoid the duplication of effort, but as a technique, an environment which moves them closer to their goals through the augmentation of the human intellect.”
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