Sunday, October 26, 2008

16. A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect, by Engelbart and English, 1968

  • Piece documents the "mother of all demos" 
  • 1968 - Fall joint Computer Conference in S.F.
  • Englebart and English, with a projection screen behind them gave a live and public demo of interactive computing that had been done by the Augmentation Research Center from the start of its creation
  • Highly risky because it had never been done before, but they felt as though it would prove the importance in continuing similar research
  • Introduced new interfaces, many of which still exist, many of which (the mouse) have the same name.

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