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'''Douglas Engelbart''' was an American computer scientist who played a very important role today's modern-style interactive computing, using [[graphical user interface]]s. Much of the work was done at the [[Augmentation Research Center]], at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].

He is perhaps best known for the "Mother of All Demos", at 1968 [[Fall Joint Computer Conference]]; he and several collaborators from the Augmentation Research Center did a public demonstration of the [[mouse]]-driven graphical user interface they had produced. The FJCC was in San Francisco that year, and they set up to use the ARC computer (which was located in Menlo Park) remotely; not at all simple, at that point in time. The demo completely blew the audience (to whom the current standard of [[user interface]]s used [[Teletype]]s) away - hence the name by which it is now known.

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==Further reading==

* Thierry Bardini, ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', Stanford University, Stanford, 2000

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	* [https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/09/mother-of-all-demos-oregon-1968-computer-demonstration-douglas-engelbart/ 55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing]		* [https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/09/mother-of-all-demos-oregon-1968-computer-demonstration-douglas-engelbart/ 55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing]

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 * [https://dougengelbart.org/ Doug Engelbart Institute]
 ** [https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/243/ The Engelbart Archive: Historic Legacy]
 * [https://computerhistory.org/blog/net-50-did-engelbart-s-mother-of-all-demos-launch-the-connected-world/ Did Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" Launch the Connected World?] - informative introductory article, useful links at the end
 * [https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/09/mother-of-all-demos-oregon-1968-computer-demonstration-douglas-engelbart/ 55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing]
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 '''Douglas Engelbart''' was an American computer scientist who played a very important role today's modern-style interactive computing, using [[graphical user interface]]s. Much of the work was done at the [[Augmentation Research Center]] (originally named the Augmented Human Intellect Research Center' (AHIRC), later shortened to ARC), at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].
-He is perhaps best known for the "Mother of All Demos", at 1968 [[Fall Joint Computer Conference]]; he and several collaborators from the Augmentation Research Center did a public demonstration of the [[mouse]]-driven graphical user interface they had produced. The FJCC was in San Francisco that year, and they set up to use the ARC computer (which was located in Menlo Park) remotely; not at all simple, at that point in time. The demo completely blew the audience (to whom the current standard of [[user interface]]s used [[Teletype]]s) away - hence the name by which it is now known.
+He is perhaps best known for the "[[Mother of All Demos]]", at 1968 [[Fall Joint Computer Conference]]; he and several collaborators from the Augmentation Research Center did a public demonstration of the [[mouse]]-driven graphical user interface they had produced. The FJCC was in San Francisco that year, and they set up to use the ARC computer (which was located in Menlo Park) remotely; not at all simple, at that point in time. The demo completely blew the audience (to whom the current standard of [[user interface]]s used [[Teletype]]s) away - hence the name by which it is now known.
 Many alumni of ARC later moved to [[Xerox PARC]], where they were prominent early figures.

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-'''Douglas Engelbart''' was an American computer scientist who played a very important role today's modern-style interactive computing, using [[graphical user interface]]s. Much of the work was done at the [[Augmentation Research Center]], at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].
+'''Douglas Engelbart''' was an American computer scientist who played a very important role today's modern-style interactive computing, using [[graphical user interface]]s. Much of the work was done at the [[Augmentation Research Center]] (originally named the Augmented Human Intellect Research Center' (AHIRC), later shortened to ARC), at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].
 He is perhaps best known for the "Mother of All Demos", at 1968 [[Fall Joint Computer Conference]]; he and several collaborators from the Augmentation Research Center did a public demonstration of the [[mouse]]-driven graphical user interface they had produced. The FJCC was in San Francisco that year, and they set up to use the ARC computer (which was located in Menlo Park) remotely; not at all simple, at that point in time. The demo completely blew the audience (to whom the current standard of [[user interface]]s used [[Teletype]]s) away - hence the name by which it is now known.
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 * Thierry Bardini, ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', Stanford University, Stanford, 2000
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