The Rise of Groupware: How collaboration software came to be
“Some of the basic ideas behind groupware were first forged at the Stanford Research Institute by a Douglas Engelbart–led team, in the 1960s, working on what they called an oN-Line System (NLS). An early version of NLS was presented in 1968 during what became known as the “Mother of All Demos.” It was essentially a coming-out party for many computing innovations that would eventually become commonplace.”
The bitter history of collaboration’s prophet
The bitter history of collaboration's prophet
“Douglas Engelbart did more than invent the mouse — he's also the father of collaborative computing [who pioneered] many ideas that are still not familiar today that are more to do with ways of using the tools, not tool features on their own. One that is beginning to gain traction is the Networked Improvement Community (NIC), as a disciplined form of distributed network committed to analysing a common problem, diagnosing its root causes, and then rigorously testing new ideas, sharing results.”
Douglas Engelbart and the Invention of Collaborative Computing
Douglas Engelbart and the Invention of Collaborative Computing
“At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, a soft-spoken and unassuming scientist by the name of Douglas Engelbart led an R&D team that created the first collaborative computing system. He’s best known as the inventor of the mouse, but his contributions to computing go far beyond that.”
In Depth: Groupware
In Depth: Groupware
Featuring in-depth coverage of the budding Groupware arena: “We are pleased to begin our In Depth section with "Working Together" by Douglas Engelbart and Harvey Lehtman. Some of the earliest work in collaborative work systems was done by Douglas Engelbart, and this article defines the elements involved in groupware and discusses the importance of both the tool and the human elements.”
See also: The Engelbart/Lehtman Article (multiple formats) | BYTE December Issue
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.
Available Formats: PDF | eReader | Abstract
The Computer as a Communication Device
The Computer as a Communication Device
Describing a recent computer-supported meeting in Doug Engelbart's lab as a case in point, the authors contend: “we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information—not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it.”
See Engelbart's Firsts for details.
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