name: Douglas Engelbart
image: img/douglas-engelbart.jpeg
period: 1960s
After the army, 35 y.o switched to studying engineering. Envisioned and helped building a working hardware+software system in 1968 at SRI, NLS that prototypes all personal computing today: keyboard, mouse, video-conference, web, etc.
- PhD in Berkeley
- Worked at SRI Augmentation Research Center
- ARPA funded the work
- Created Bootstrap Institute
- Augmenting human intelligence
- oNLine System (NLS)
- mouse
- "Mother of all demos", 1968
- Bootstrapping
- Alan Kay
- Ted Nilson
- Chapter 9 of the book "Tools for Thought"
- https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/engelbart.html
- http://dougengelbart.org
- Original Dec 9th, 1968 "Mother of All demos"
- MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium
- Documentary movie "The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart", 2019