Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'

His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html

SiliconValley.com: The Mouse

Douglas Engelbart's early ideas about computing, like those of other valley pioneers, were way out there; 30 years later, the rest of us are catching on. Warm, sympathetic reasonably long piece; good pictures.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/special/engelbart/

Computerworld: This revolution brought to you by ...

Depressing story on Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: 30 years later, nothing has evolved. Some Alan Kay quotes.
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO33636,00.html

Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart

Brief professional biography; a on-site few links.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html

Douglas Engelbart

Very brief biography, in larger WEB Publishing Paradigms website, by Tim Guay, Simon Fraser University.
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/~guay/Paradigm/Engelbart.html

1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart

A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/npuc97/1995/engelbart.htm

Dreaming of the Future

Engelbart's Commentary from BYTE Magazine, Vol. 20(9):330, Sept. 1995. 'Digital technology could help make this a better world. But we've also got to change our way of thinking.'
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/engelbart.html

Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker

By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University

Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
http://unrev.stanford.edu/

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies

Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics.
http://arctic.org/~adam/sites/eur/

Dr. Dobb's Journal: A Conversation With Doug Engelbart

Medium-long interview: worthwhile, covers history and Engelbart's current views.
http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0009/0009a/0009a.htm

USA Today: Computer mouse creator wins invention prize

Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cta234.htm

Salon: Brilliant Careers: Of mice, men and machines

Doug Engelbart invented the mouse. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system.
http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/15bc.html

Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS

Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,16752,00.html

BusinessWeek: The Man Behind the Mouse

Very brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize.
http://www.businessweek.com/1997/16/b352372.htm

U.S. News & World Report: The man who sees the future

Doug Engelbart built the mouse; he may alter computing again: short, well written story.
http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=19960520009

The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart

Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart

Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html

The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart

Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story.
http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2001/2001_02_21.cover21.html

Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart

At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute.
http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/chronicle.html

Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution

Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today.
http://www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online

Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples.
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/engelbart/main.html

MouseSite

Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/