Augmenting Human Intellect: The Mouse, The Mother of All Demos, The Unfinished Revolution
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Doug Engelbart was an engineer who worked at Stanford Research Institute (later SRI International) from 1957 to 1986. On December 9, 1968, in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, he demonstrated a vision of computing that reached beyond calculation wherein computers could augment a human’s ability to understand and solve complex problems. Later called The Mother of All Demos, his vision included many aspects of computing that have become truly ubiquitous. Amongst these was the mouse, his invention which had its first public exposure on that day 58 years ago. He also demonstrated collaborative online editing, hypertext, video conferencing, word processing, spell checking, and revision control.
This talk will trace the development of Engelbart’s vision, which was first inspired by Vannevar Bush’s Memex of 1945, and which led to Engelbart’s 1962 paper Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework and his 1968 Demo. It will also explore the paradigm shift that he championed, and which we all use on a daily basis. Importantly, this talk will also discuss the unfinished revolution that Engelbart left us.
The timing of this talk coincides with other events happening later that week: SRI’s 80th anniversary celebration on Nov. 12, and the dedication of an IEEE Milestone for the Mouse on Nov. 13.
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Jeff Rulifson
Jeff Rulifson worked for Stanford Research Institute (SRI) while a student at Stanford Univ. He designed much of the software for Doug Engelbart’s legendary “Mother of All Demos”, which took place in 1968 at the IEEE Computer Society’s Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, CA. He started working on the Arpanet in 1968. After SRI, his work included significant contributions in AI, office information systems, research, standards, and engineering management at Xerox PARC, ROLM Corporation, Syntelligence, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.
Jeff holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Washington. He is an ACM Fellow, was inducted into the SRI International Hall of Fame, and was named a Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) ARPANET Pioneer for his pioneering work on a common language to allow dissimilar systems to communicate. Along with Doug Engelbart and William English, he received the 1990 ACM Software System Award for pioneering work on augmenting human intellect with hypertext, outline processors, and video conferencing as implemented in Engelbart’s oN-Line System (NLS) at SRI. Much of Jeff’s early work is discussed in a 2019 IEEE Computer Society story.
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