Tools that make business better and better: A Silicon Valley legend
“A Silicon Valley legend who pioneered the mouse and the Internet has been thinking about how groups can work smarter--companies, divisions, teams, whatever--longer than anyone else. Better than anyone too: His ideas--long incubated, long promulgated, and long ignored--provide a way of looking at how to improve corporate performance that's fresh and refreshingly practical. His name is Douglas C. Engelbart.
Inventor of the present works on the future
Inventor of the present works on the future
"If we are going to do any good with the collaborative work tools that computers provide, it is going to involve significant changes at all levels of our social system and our organizations" -- Doug Engelbart. Then and now, Engelbart understood that the most profound changes to result from his inventions were not hardware or software innovations, but social innovations - new ways for people to think, communicate and work together.
Computer Pioneer Works to Raise the ‘Collective IQ’ of Organizations
Computer Pioneer Works to Raise the 'Collective IQ' of Organizations
“If not for Douglas Engelbart, a great many of the technical innovations we consider integral to the personal computer revolution would not exist. [...] His motivating concept, still largely untested today, was that information technologies could serve as the connective tissue between people and information. The result, he said, would be an exponential increase in what he calls an organization's "collective I.Q,”
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Man of the Mouse
Man of the Mouse
“In 1967 Douglas Engelbart invented the COMPUTER MOUSE. He was also among the first people to develop uses for the Internet.”
Improving your organization’s IQ
Improving your organization's IQ
“In some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, the name Douglas Engelbart is spoken with reverence... credited with inventing the mouse, hypertext, multiple-window screen displays, and computer conferencing, among other staples of computer technology. But his greatest innovation has been largely ignored...”
In this premier edition of her award-winning journal from the Drucker Foundation, Frances Hesselbein covers Engelbart's strategy for improving how we improve our organizations, and the ABCs of leveraging our Collective IQ throughout the organization's "improvement infrastructure" and across improvement communities.
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.”
Doug Engelbart: Father of the Mouse
Doug Engelbart: Father of the Mouse
“Many people mistakenly believe that the mouse was invented by Apple, [or] that Steve Jobs stole the idea from Xerox... But in truth, the mouse was first conceived of by Doug Engelbart in the early 1960’s... SuperKids recently visited with Doug in the offices of his current venture, Bootstrap, Inc.”
Educators Seek Technology Insights
Educators Seek Technology Insights
Doug Engelbart meeting with educators at the Hartford Graduate Center to discuss how innovative computing and practices can help student-designed networked initiatives prepare them for their future. Photo Credit: Stephen Dunn - The Hartford Courant.
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