Department of Defense. Engelbart expected his presentation to attract hundreds of engineers eager to join him in this new wave of computing. He thought the audience members would line up afterwards to ask how they could join his network and help develop his ideas. I was looking for B-roll footage in the Stanford library when Henry Lowood, a librarian, mentioned a film reel he had from a computer demonstration in I was riveted. After our program aired, Engelbart asked us to produce a video about his ideas.
We never did make the video, but as I sat down to talk to him, I realized that what he was describing could actually change the world. It certainly changed me. I went to graduate school at Harvard and studied educational technology, and we worked closely together until his death in The philosophy that informed Doug Engelbart's revolutionary inventions for personal computing. He realized he had achieved both of his major life goals: a good job and a good wife.
He pondered what he should aim for next. Then it hit him. At that time, there were relatively few computers in the world. He outlined innovative ways of manipulating and viewing information, and then sharing it over a network so people could work together.
He was asking them to take too big a leap, from doing calculations on punch cards to creating a new information superhighway. Engelbart, who had three daughters himself, believed that women were ideally suited to building new cultures.
This got him in a lot of trouble. He wanted them to bring together thinkers who could, collectively, change the way the networks collected and analyzed information. Before long, the government reduced his funding, foreshadowing the end of his Augmentation Research Center. This was the first successful implementation of hypertext. The mouse was not adopted for general use until the s when Apple computers began using them.
NLS also created new graphical user interfaces implementing a windowing environment and allowed the user to e-mail other users as well as offering a variety of word processing options. Perhaps most remarkably, NLS also provided for on-screen video teleconferencing. All of these technologies, which are now ubiquitous, were truly astonishing to most back in the s. In , at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, Engelbart demonstrated NLS in a 90 minute multimedia presentation that included a live video conference with staff members back in his lab 30 miles away.
To this day, Engelbart's demo is still known as "the mother of all demos. His ideas were to different and new for others to fully grasp. Some people in attendance thought the whole thing was a hoax.
He was excited about the new network ARPA was building. He saw it as a vehicle to extend NLS and increase distributed collaboration. We arranged with him to be the document center for the network so all of the documentation, all of the publications would be online at SRI. Engelbart has continued to work on augmenting human intellect, seldom receiving the acknowledgement many believe he deserves.
In , he founded the Bootstrap Institute to foster high performance organizations by developing enabling technologies and promoting collaboration. At age 75, his work continues. For Further Reading. View all literary device worksheets. View all Women's History worksheets.
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