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It's Doug Engelbart's 100th birthday! DEI  | Jan 30, 2025 | Christina Engelbart “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.”

Celebrating Jake Feinler - Engelbart alumn - at the 2024 CHM Fellow Awards DEI | Nov 16, 2024 | Christina Engelbart Congrats to Computer History Museum 2024 Fellow Awards recipients -- including Jake Feinler, who first launched the Network Information Centers back in Doug Engelbart's lab...

Collective IQ - a Holistic Management Perspective DEI | Oct 6, 2024 | William F. Christopher “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 DEI | Dec 26, 2023 | Christina Engelbart 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.

The Evolution Of Technology In GIF Form IBTimes | Feb 3, 2015 | Charles Poladian It's easy to see how much technology has changed over the past decade, but it's more startling to see just how far we've come since the mouse made its debut in 1963.

Help multiply our efforts this #GivingTuesday DEI | Nov 28, 2023 | Christina Engelbart 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.

Farewell to Peter Yim DEI | Jan 18, 2023 | Christina Engelbart Over 100 individuals can count themselves alumni of Doug Engelbart’s career, dating clear back to the late 1950s. Fast forward to 1999, the remarkable Peter Yim...

Newly remastered footage from The Demo original film reels DEI | Dec 9, 2022 | Christina Engelbart 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.

IT Day Japan 2021: Can IT save the worsening crisis of mankind? DEI | Dec 4, 2021  | Christina Engelbart The Doug Engelbart Institute is proud to sponsor the virtual symposium IT Day Japan 2021: “Can IT save the worsening crisis of the mankind?” – Saturday, December 4, 2021 17:00-19:00 (Pacific Time). I will be there in spirit this year, a digital presence, expect more to come! The others will be live, I’m very much looking forward to their insights and discussion on this far reaching topic! 

Celebrating the Mother of All Demos - 53 years on DEI | Dec 9, 2021 | Christina Engelbart Help us celebrate Doug's legendary Demo with fun facts, archive footage and photos, and experience the demo interactively, with you in the driver's seat.

Doug Engelbart in Hometown Art Exhibit DEI | Dec 4, 2021 | Christina Engelbart Doug Engelbart will be among those featured at a unique art exhibit in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, this December and January. The exhibit showcases Doug’s niece, Oregonian artist Dee Vadnais in the context of land, family, community. The 'Doug piece' will feature archive photos and descriptions of his pioneering work boosting the collective effectiveness of networked communities in pursuit of humanity's highest potential.

Collective IQ and Continuous Improvement DEI | Aug 3, 2021 | Rob Miller 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 DEI | Dec 9, 2020 | Christina Engelbart 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.

A Tribute to Bill English DEI   | Aug 4, 2020 | Christina Engelbart “On behalf of Doug Engelbart and the Doug Engelbart Institute, we bid farewell to Bill English, one of the greats in Doug’s seminal research, who died on July 26 at the age of 91. To the wonderful outpouring we'll embellish here on his seminal contributions to Doug Engelbart's research, with archive footage, photos, and more.”

DEI Newsletter - 2019 Highlights DEI | Jan 12, 2020 | Christina Engelbart Wishing you a Happy New Year! We're enclosing our 2019 Highlights, looking ahead to an exciting lineup of projects and inviting you to connect and share your thoughts about what you'd like to see more of from the Doug Engelbart Institute in the coming year.

SRI establishes Distinguished Engelbart Fellow Award DEI | Jan 23, 2020 | Christina Engelbart 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 DEI | Dec 11, 2018 | Christina Engelbart 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!

Doug Engelbart’s Paradigm for Bootstrapping DEI | Dec 8, 2018 | Karen Risa Robbins Guest contributor Karen Risa Robbins with Christina Engelbart explore the essential elements of Doug Engelbart's paradigm for bootstrapping networked teams, initiatives, and organizations.

HyPerform and Augment DEI | Nov 12, 2018 | N. Dean Meyer Guest contributor Dean Meyer, management consultant and author who got his start in Doug Engelbart's lab, shares his insights re: the concept, history, and purpose of Doug's iconic “Augment” system, as exemplified by HyPerform

Thought Vectors - What Motivated Doug Engelbart DEI | Nov 11, 2018 | Greg Lloyd Guest contributor Greg Lloyd, President Traction Software, Inc., shares his insights on Doug's driving vision in connection with Gardner's Thought Vectors MOOC offered at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Engelbart on Improving Improvement DEI | Jan 14, 2018 | Jim Spohrer From guest author Jim Spohrer - Doug Engelbart is most well-known for inventing the mouse, and as an internet pioneer. However, Doug’s vision for improving improvement to better tackle complex, urgent problems is to many his most significant contribution.

DEI | Nov 2, 2017 | Karen Risa Robbins From guest contributor Karen Risa Robbins - key insights from Doug Engelbart's visionary strategy for bootstrapping transformation in business and social enterprises.

RIP Robert Taylor Who Shaped Modern Computing
DEI | Apr 15, 2017 | Christina Engelbart
We mourn the passing this week of another great Internet pioneer, innovator, and instigator of networked personal computing - Bob Taylor, and highlight his influence on Doug Engelbart's seminal work.

Groundbreaking 1968 Demo recognized with IEEE Milestone Plaque DEI | Mar 21, 2017 | Christina Engelbart Doug's legendary Demo now recognized as a seminal event in the history of computing by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity. Unveiling of the IEEE Milestone Plaque was celebrated at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA.

Announcing a cool new way to experience the 1968 Demo! DEI | Mar 18, 2017 | CE w. Bret Victor Now you can experience Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" like never before - in this new interactive format you get a bird's eye view of the video that is browsable, skimmable, sampleable...

Gardner Campbell and The Great VCU Bike Race Learning Expedition DEI | Dec 12, 2016 | Christina Engelbart Dr. Gardner Campbell has done it again with another revolutionary online course at University, now an Award-winning course, with all the earmarks of Bootstrapping Brilliance…

Game Changer: Hypothes.is announces 'direct linking' across the web DEI | Apr 17, 2016 | Christina Engelbart
I am absolutely thrilled to report that you can now link directly to a specific point within a file, most anywhere on the web. The tool is 'hypothes.is', it is a game changer, and I'll tell you why.

The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ DEI | Apr 14, 2016 | Christina Engelbart What is this promise? In Doug's mind it was always about humans interacting with each other and with their knowledge in dynamic knowledge ecosystems, facilitated by a suite of interactive tools and processes. This is the gateway to augmenting human intellect, boosting Collective IQ, enhancing human effectiveness, and Bootstrapping Brilliance in business and society.

On Tour with our Engelbart Scholars DEI | Apr 9, 2016 | Christina Engelbart What did these undergrads do for Spring Break? They toured with the Doug Engelbart Institute in the San Francisco area, joined by professors and an embedded university librarian, for a week of hands-on immersion in the Engelbart legacy.

How Doug Engelbart taught students about how computers think DEI | Mar 15, 2016 | Christina Engelbart Around 1960 Doug Engelbart was a young electrical engineer at Stanford Research Institute, invited by several local schools and clubs to come teach them how computers worked. Instead of giving lectures on the topic, he devised a parlor game where the players acted out the basic computer operations.

Bootstrapping Brilliance in Education DEI | Feb 22, 2016 | Christina Engelbart Here are some links to accompany my 'lightening talk' at last weekend's Ed Foo Camp, an invitation-only unconference on Education Innovation sponsored by O'Reilly, Google, Sesame Street and MacMillan Learning.

Can citizen science be used to solve Alzheimer’s? DEI | Jan 28, 2016 | Christina Engelbart I recently spoke with colleague Pietro Michelucci about an exciting new effort to dramatically accelerate progress in Alzheimer's research by crowdsourcing the image analysis.

Bye Bye Babbage DEI | Jan 22, 2016 | Christina Engelbart The Babbage Engine has been one of my personal favs at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA since 2008...

Going ‘Lean’ is strategic for any organization DEI | Dec 17, 2015 | Christina Engelbart DEI Executive Director Christina Engelbart attended Lean Startup Conference 2015 to (1) learn how to apply it, (2) in community, and (3) see how it plays with Bootstrapping Brilliance. Here’s how you can learn more about Lean strategy.

Today in Tech History – the Mother of All Demos DEI | Dec 9, 2015 | Christina Engelbart December 9th, 1968 at 3:00pm at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, California, Doug Engelbart was slated to present his research. Instead of giving his talk, he and his team demonstrated their vision and progress to an astonished audience of a thousand computer professionals throughout the 90 minute session. Attendees got a taste of how knowledge workers of the future would work together in an online interactive collaborative hyperlinked information space. This was not just a demonstration of what could be, it was a demonstration of how the researchers in Doug’s lab were already working on a daily basis...

Great quotes by Doug Engelbart and Others DEI | Dec 3, 2015 | Christina Engelbart Favorite quotes from Doug Engelbart’s writings, talks, and interviews, plus some great related quotes by others.

Esther Dyson’s ‘Way to Wellville’ Challenge a game changer DEI | Dec 7, 2015 | Christina Engelbart Here’s an exciting fresh approach to transforming the health of our communities. “The Way to Wellville, a national challenge among five communities over five years to make significant, visible and lasting improvement in five measures of health and economic vitality. In the end, we’ll map new paths for entire communities to make changes that result in healthier people and places.”

Meet this year’s Engelbart Scholar Award recipients DEI | Nov 25, 2015 | Christina Engelbart Congratulations to our 2015-2016 Engelbart Scholar Award recipients from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and their professor Dr. Gardner Campbell, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success, Dean of University College, and Associate Professor of English at VCU. Dr. Campbell is the mastermind behind the Engelbart Scholar Program, as an extension of his innovative online course inspired in part by the pioneering vision of Doug Engelbart.

Engelbart Scholars tour with Doug Engelbart Institute DEI | Jun 14, 2015 | Christina Engelbart I was honored and thrilled this last month to host some very special guests for a full week of site tours, meetings, and in-depth studies — a select group of Engelbart Scholars convening the week of March 9th at the Doug Engelbart Institute in Menlo Park, CA, for a “deep dive” into Doug Engelbart’s seminal work, including a tour of Doug Engelbart Archive collections at Stanford Libraries Special Collections, the Computer History Museum, and the Internet Archives.

Internet Society showcases Engelbart's Legacy in Action DEI | May 8, 2015 | Christina Engelbart One year after inducting Doug Engelbart to the Internet Hall of Fame, the Internet Society ran a profile piece showcasing his lasting legacy, in particular how one professor – Dr. Gardner Campbell, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) – is putting his vision to practice. “Doug Engelbart’s greatest breakthrough may be to change how we think, how we learn and innovate, and how we collaborate.”

‘The Demo’ now an avant garde opera at Stanford DEI | Apr 1, 2015 | Christina Engelbart Stanford Live presents an avant garde opera ‘The Demo’, a musical/video/lightshow reimagining the 1968 “Mother of All Demos” originally presented by Doug Engelbart and his team from Stanford Research Institute at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968.

President Obama cites Engelbart’s Innovations DEI | Feb 14, 2015 | Christina Engelbart In his speech Friday at the Cyber Summit at Stanford University, President Barak Obama named key pioneers behind the breakthrough innovations that catapulted us into the digital Information Age, leading with Hewlett and Packard, and Douglas Engelbart. Watch this segment of the speech, or enjoy the whole speech here.

Meet the ‘keyset’ – a mouse’s best friend DEI | Jan 23, 2015 | Christina Engelbart The mouse was not the only input device invented by Doug Engelbart. Meet the keyset, which Engelbart invented to input text and commands with his left hand while pointing on the screen with his right to increase speed and efficiency. Check out this feature article Of Mice And Men by 99%Invisible podcaster Luisa Beck.

Farewell to Jim Norton DEI | Nov 3, 2014 | Christina Engelbart A special tribute to Jim Norton, who worked in Doug Engelbart's lab in the 1970s and '80s, and who passed away October 2014.

A Fond Farewell to Dave Evans DEI | Sep 21, 2014 | Christina Engelbart A special tribute to Dave Evans, who worked in Doug Engelbart's lab in the 1960s, and who passed away September 2014.

2014 Human Computation Roadmap Summit DEI   | June 20, 2014 | Christina Engelbart I was honored to participate in the Human Computation Roadmap Summit at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, to collaborate on the design and analysis of information processing systems in which humans participate as computational agents. The workshop included over 60 participants from a variety of disciplines...

Announcing Summer MOOC and Engelbart Scholar Award at VCU DEI | Apr 25, 2014 | Christina Engelbart Vice Provost Gardner Campbell at Virginia Commonwealth University is launching a unique experiment with this cooperative style Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on research writing, including a new Engelbart Scholars Award for two lucky undergraduates.

Doug Engelbart inducted to Internet Hall of Fame DEI | Apr 8, 2014 | Christina Engelbart “Hong Kong - April 8, 2014 - The late Doug Engelbart now named among the elite ranks of notables inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for their significant contributions to the advancement of the global Internet.”

How these rural initiatives in Uganda are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge DEI | Dec 13, 2013 | Patricia Seybold Guest contributor Patricia Seybold shares this fabulous case study showing how the Uganda Rural Development Training Programme (URDT) and the African Rural University (ARU) are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge.

Celebrating Doug Engelbart and the 45th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos DEI | Dec 10, 2013 | Christina Engelbart December 9th, 2013 marked the 45th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos at the Computer History Museum with a wonderful memorial celebration of Doug Engelbart, who passed away earlier this year.