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 Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines - http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/15bc.html Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, chording keyboards, outlining, a type of hypertext, windows (tiled), and groupware. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. [Salon] |
 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/npuc97/1995/engelbart.htm A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links. |
 Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,16752,00.html Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution. |
 Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html 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. |
 The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart - http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html 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. |
 The Man Behind the Mouse - http://www.businessweek.com/1997/16/b352372.htm Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek] |
 Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos' - http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html 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 interaction. |
 Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart - http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html Brief professional biography; a on-site few links. |
 Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution - http://www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today. |
 Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Phase Two Strategies - http://arctic.org/~adam/sites/eur/ Promotes event, some useful links, nice graphics. |
 MouseSite - http://sloan.stanford.edu/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. |
 Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Online - http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/engelbart/main.html Tells about a symposium at Stanford University, 9 Dec 1998: brief professional biography, video samples. |
 Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University - http://unrev.stanford.edu/ Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video. |
 National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart - http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture. |
 Computer Mouse Creator Wins Invention Prize - http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/press/990228/cta234.html Brief, easily read story, a few good quotes. [USA Today] |
 Biographical Sketch: Doug Engelbart - http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/chronicle.html At Engelbart's headquarters, his Bootstrap Institute. |
 The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart - http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2001/2001_02_21.cover21.html Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story. |
 Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution - http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/ History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog. |
 A Chat with Doug Engelbart - http://www.mprove.de/script/05/reboot/engelbart.html From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove] |
 Douglas Engelbart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia] |