The Mother of All Demos: Rediscovering the Birth of Modern Interactive Computing
One day and fifty-two years after the historic "mother of all demos", Howard Bussey will discuss and share some excerpts from the presentation by Doug Engelbart at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference. In his demo, he showed the foundations of today's interactive computing: windows, hypertext, video conferencing, computer-supported collaborative work, and revision control. He'll also talk briefly about the computer supporting all this, and some threads that computer spawned.
This is jointly presented with the RocDev Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/RocDev/events/274522332/
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- Date: 10 Dec 2020
- Time: 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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- Rochester, New York
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- Co-sponsored by Mark Schrader
- Starts 18 November 2020 10:00 AM
- Ends 10 December 2020 06:00 PM
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Howard Bussey
Biography:
In Howard Bussey's first computer job he found and fixed a garbage collector bug in a Snobol implementation on a timesharing computer. He wrote software at Bell Labs for the 5ESS. He contributed to the research that was standardized as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (although they all thought the standardized cell size would be 1 or 2 kbytes). At Kodak, he worked on several on-line services. At RIT, he worked on EPLS and modeled some vehicle systems. He currently tutors dyslexic students, does recreational programming, and volunteers with the Rochester IEEE Section.
Howard has a BA in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a BEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He has 6 patents and 14 publications.
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Agenda
7:00 Introductions, warm-up, etc
7:10 View Demo Excerpts
8:00 Threads from this work
8:10 Questions & comments
Image of Doug Engelbart from By cogdogblog - https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/1805321166/, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56997143