It's Doug Engelbart's 100th birthday!
“January 30, 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's birth! Please join us in celebrating this gentle and generous soul, whose life's work remains a gift that keeps on giving, and continues to inspire.”
Engelbart alumn Jake Feinler celebrated The Computer History Museum 2024 Fellow Awards to celebrate groundbreaking pioneers, including Jake Feinler who launched the Network Information Centers, beginning in Doug Engelbart's lab...
Collective IQ - a Holistic Management Perspective “Engelbart contends that the development of tool systems has progressed far faster and further than has the development of companies’ human systems. So the company’s capability infrastructure lags behind what is possible. How to improve the human system? Dr. Engelbart’s solution is to increase the organization’s collective IQ (CIQ).”
Excerpted from the book Holistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success, by William F. Christopher.
Help multiply our efforts this #GivingSeason Doug Engelbart’s seminal vision was to multiply the power of groups and initiatives to make the world a better place. He did this by pioneering enabling tools and strategies that would amplify their collective smarts and creativity, and thus maximize their benefit to mankind. And he changed the world. And yet we have only scratched the surface of humanity's true potential...And now your generous donation will help us multiply our efforts.
Newly remastered footage from The Demo original film reels This year we're celebrating Doug's legendary Demo with newly re-mastered footage from the original film reels, huge shout out to Stanford Library Special Collections ongoing efforts curating the Engelbart Collection there.
Collective IQ and Continuous Improvement By guest contributor Rob Miller // How do you harness the collective intelligence of a group, solve difficult problems, and share what you learn?
IT Day Japan - solving urgent global issues This year's topic for IT Day Japan 2020 is "What can IT do for the democratic crisis in COVID-19 pandemic?" - an issue of immediate, urgent, complex, global importance. The video is now up for those who missed the live event on Zoom.
SRI establishes Distinguished Engelbart Fellow Award In honor of the late Douglas C. Engelbart, the Distinguished Engelbart Fellow Award recognizes "visionaries who are disrupting the traditional way we interact with and view technology" from around the globe. We are thrilled to congratulate the first recipient Genevieve Bell, Distinguished Professor of Australia National University.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Demo Events were held on three continents celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's landmark demo - exploring the past and future of a brilliant legacy and all it inspires!