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| − | The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did | + | The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did ground-breaking work in the areas of [[user interface]]s and [[application]]s. |
Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]]. | Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]]. | ||
Revision as of 12:41, 7 October 2023
The Augmentation Research Center (usually given as the acronym, ARC) was a research group started by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute. It did ground-breaking work in the areas of user interfaces and applications.
Among their notable innovations were the invention of the mouse, 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and hypertext.
Further reading
- Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, Stanford University Press, 2000
- John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, Viking Press, 2005 - covers much else, but has good coverage of the history of ARC, and work there
- M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine, Viking Penguin, 2001 - Licklider, who had been thinking along the same lines, was an early backer of ARC
