Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

This event is being held in observance of his birth anniversary

Biography:

There is plenty of material publicly available on Doug Engelbart. More will be posted later as we approach closer to the event.

Some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Awards:

    National Medal of Technology (2000)
    Lemelson–MIT Prize
    ACM Turing Award (1997)
    BCS Lovelace Medal (2001)
    Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
    Computer History Museum Fellow Award (2005)
    NAE Member (1996)
    IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame. [2011]
    First honorary Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree from Yale University in May 2011

Reading Material:

Guide to the Douglas C. Engelbart Papers, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries (with new accessions added in 2016)

Bardini, Thierry (2000). Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3723-1.

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