article featured imageDoug Engelbart: The Unfinished Revolution Government Technology | Aug 1999 | Blake Harris Engelbart "pioneered what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking and organizational transformation. After 20 years of directing his own lab at SRI, and 11 years as senior scientist, first at Tymshare, and then at McDonnell Douglas Corp., Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is working closely with industry and government stakeholders to launch a collaborative implementation of his work.” Appearing in Government Technology Magazine: Special Issue "Visions: technology and government for the new millennium

article featured imageDouglas Engelbart: More Thoughts from Cassandra
TidBITS | Dec 14, 1998 | Adam Engst
Douglas Engelbart can be credited with inventing much of the computing paradigm we all use today, but have we missed his most important ideas? Adam looks at where Engelbart has been and where he thinks we need to strategize for the future, given the accelerating rate of change: “Wouldn’t you think [an organization] would try to knock off two birds with one stone by creating products that radically improve the productivity of its own employees, with the understanding that doing so would result in products that would better meet the needs of other customers?”
Reference: This article was inspired by Doug's Turing Lecture | Slidedeck

article featured imageDouglas Carl Engelbart: Developing the Underlying Concepts for Contemporary Computing
IEEE Annals | Jul 1997 | Susan B. Barnes
“What is missing from the current commercial descriptions of the Web is a discussion about the 30-year history of R&D that created the underlying technologies on which the Web is based. Much of this foundation was laid in the 1960s by Douglas Carl Engelbart. In 1968, at the ACM/IEEE-CS Fall Joint Computer Conference, Engelbart demonstrated his concept of “interactive computing” to a group of computer scientists, and this is now considered a seminal event in the history of computing." Source: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Volume 19 Issue 3, July 1997

article featured imageOf Mouse and Man Hartford Courant | Apr 17, 1997 | Kevin Hunt “In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.” -- Douglas Engelbart, upon receiving the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the crown jewel of inventor prizes, in New York last week. Visit Engelbart Awards for details.

article featured imageTools that make business better and better: A Silicon Valley legend Fortune Magazine | Dec 23, 1996 | Thomas Stewart “A Silicon Valley legend who pioneered the mouse and the Internet has been thinking about how groups can work smarter--companies, divisions, teams, whatever--longer than anyone else. Better than anyone too: His ideas--long incubated, long promulgated, and long ignored--provide a way of looking at how to improve corporate performance that's fresh and refreshingly practical. His name is Douglas C. Engelbart.

article featured imageComputer Pioneer Works to Raise the 'Collective IQ' of Organizations NY Times | Oct 7, 1996 | Denise Caruso “If not for Douglas Engelbart, a great many of the technical innovations we consider integral to the personal computer revolution would not exist. [...] His motivating concept, still largely untested today, was that information technologies could serve as the connective tissue between people and information. The result, he said, would be an exponential increase in what he calls an organization's "collective I.Q,” See also Denise Caruso interviews Doug Engelbart: Meeting the Creator on MSNBC's The Site

article featured imageImproving your organization's IQ Leader to Leader | Sep 1996 | Frances Hessselbein “In some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, the name Douglas Engelbart is spoken with reverence... credited with inventing the mouse, hypertext, multiple-window screen displays, and computer conferencing, among other staples of computer technology. But his greatest innovation has been largely ignored. It is a vision of people using technology to 'improve the collective IQ of organizations'” In this premier edition of her magazin, Hesselbein covers Engelbart's strategy for improving how we improve our organizations, and the ABCs of leveraging our Collective IQ throughout the organization's "improvement infrastructure" and across improvement communities.

article featured imageThe man who sees the future US News | May 20, 1996 | Eric Ransdell Doug Engelbart's ideas "are based on the premise that the complexity and urgency of the world's problems are increasing at a rate that is greater than mankind's ability to cope. Engelbart's solution is bound up in his idea of augmenting the collective IQ of organizations through a process known as bootstrapping. Though these ideas have driven him for the better part of 45 years, to the outside world they remain largely ungrokked.”

article featured imageEducators Seek Technology Insights Hartford Courant | Jan 30, 1996 | John Moran Doug Engelbart meeting with educators at the Hartford Graduate Center to discuss how innovative computing and practices can help student-designed networked initiatives prepare them for their future. Photo Credit: Stephen Dunn - The Hartford Courant.

article featured imageDreaming of the Future
BYTE Magazine | Sep 1995 | Douglas Engelbart
“Can digital technology make a better world? Improve our collective IQ? In the dreams of this visionary inventor it can.”
Also available in eReader format | More of Engelbart in this 20th Anniversary Issue: Top 20 People (Doug Engelbart p.137) | Top 20 Technologies (find Mouse, GUI, Groupware)
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See Also: Full Issue | Photo Credit: David Toerge

article featured imageBYTE: Top 20 Technologies
BYTE Magazine | Sep 1995 | Staff
“California garages again store cars and junk, not computer research labs as they did in the halcyon days of Woz and Jobs. Today, the myths may be tamer, but the pace of innovation hasn't changed. Here are the major technologies of the past 20 years.” (Note: Mouse, GUI, Groupware all trace back to Engelbart)
More of Engelbart in this 20th Anniversary Issue: The 20 Most Important People (Engelbart p.137) | Dreaming of the Future, by Douglas Engelbart |
See Also: Full Issue

article featured imageBYTE: The 20 Most Important People
BYTE Magazine | Sep 1995 | Staff
“Although computers are technology, they are created by people. And the people who create them are not just one-dimensional nerds--in fact their breadth fuels their innovation. These 20 people have made the greatest impact on microcomputing.” Re: Doug Engelbart (p.137): "Dedicated to getting companies to collaborate on innovation. Comparisons to Thomas Edison do not seem farfetched."
More of Engelbart in this 20th Anniversary Issue: Top 20 Technologies (find Mouse, GUI, Groupware) | Dreaming of the Future, by Douglas Engelbart |
See Also: Full Issue

article featured imageDesigning hypermedia applications ACM Communications | Aug 1995 | Michael Bieber & Tomás Isakowitz A special issue on Hypermedia - “the science of relationships... structuring, presenting, and giving users direct access to the content and interconnections within an information domain... navigation... 'blazing trails'... annotation... information overviews..." We open this special issue with contributions from two pioneers "as beacons of hypermedia’s potential to support people, teams, and organizations in the hypermedia field. Ted Nelson describes transclusion, the central feature embedded within the design of the Xanadu paradigm... Doug Engelbart describes features central to the design of an open hyperdocument system, which he believes will constitute the core of organizational information systems in the future. ” Free access in PDF and eReader formats | Browse full issue including articles by Engelbart and Nelson.

article featured imageBootstrapping to the future NY Times | Dec 18, 1994 | Laurie Flynn “Douglas Engelbart has been called the patron saint of the computer industry, .... One doesn't have to look very far to see the fruits of his lifelong efforts…. But these innovations were all part of a broader vision … which he calls "bootstrapping," refers to [speeding] up cycles of innovation and raise the "collective I.Q." of organizations.” Also Avail: On Internet Archive | Scanned Clipping (for subscribers only)

article featured imageThe Creators
Wired | Dec 1, 1994 | Katie Hafner
“Twenty-five years ago, they brought the Internet to life." Here celebrating the 25th anniversary of the installation of the first node on the Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet.

article featured imageDoug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations customers.com | Feb 12, 1992 | Patricia Seybold “Doug Engelbart was driven to help people address really complex issues. One path is to support collaboration through the use of a Dynamic Knowledge Repository. [...] To Doug, bootstrapping is “getting better at getting better.” It’s at the heart of continuous innovation. He believes in the principle of leverage. Put your attention not on the thing you’re trying to design or do, but on how to IMPROVE the process you’re using to design or do, AND on also focus on how to improve your capacity to improve.” This is a two-part article: Part 1 | Part 2. Or read the PDF/Print version.

article featured imageHypertext/Hypermedia Handbook McGraw-Hill | 1991 | Emily Berk & Joseph Devlin “This handbook is a guide to designing and implementing with hypertext, including a survey of current hypertext practices, with contributions from professional hypertext developers." Engelbart's chapter anticipates that the tools and methods of computer-supported cooperative work will become harnessed with revolutionary benefit to the ongoing, everyday knowledge work within and between organizations, necessitating interoperability between knowledge-work domains through something like the "open hyperdocument system" made available for widespread use. Engelbart Chapter pp. 397-413 | Knowledge-domain interoperability and an open hyperdocument system

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