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Happy Mother of All Demos day to those observing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
#engelbart

Les événements du 17 novembre.
En 1970, le pionnier de l’informatique Douglas #Engelbart reçoit le brevet de la première souris d’ordinateur. Il avait déposé sa demande le 21 juin 1967. Engelbart est aussi célèbre pour sa conférence « The Mother of All demos » du 9 décembre 1968, ou il présente les concepts futuristes pour l’époque de la visioconférence, le courrier électronique, et enfin le système hypertexte.
https://www.histoiredesinventions.com/17-novembre/

@bosak 🧵Engelbart blue numbers

How great it is to use a W3C standard link to a particular item in a report published 33 years ago in a 57 year old hypertext system using a Web interface created about 30 years ago.

While the rest of the world randomly trashes links created 5 years ago, or whenever the last juice is squeezed from an article by a once famous author writing for a once respected publisher by any of a myriad of private equity predators.

#engelbart #journal #hypertext

@bosak It looks like they already have that document logged.

It contains a copy of one of my favorite Doug Engelbart papers and diagrams!

I think of an Engelbart style Journal as a space to record, cite, and link dialog, external references, and knowledge products for some continuing, broadly defined purposes of an organization or individual.

CODIAK process, Doug Engelbart (1992)
https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/116/#6

#engelbart #journal #hypertext #augment

https://archive.org/details/BootstrapCollectiveIQ9703/mode/2up

A diagram of Doug Engelbarts CONccurrent Development, Integration, & Application of Knowledge process. (CODIAK). It shows three categories of information arranged in three vertical columns:

Dialog Records: memos, status reports, change requests, commentary, design reviews, etc.

External Intelligence: Articles, books, reports, papers, competition, supplier and customer info, new technologies, trip reports, etc.

Knowledge Products: Proposals, plans, budgets, legal contracts, design specs, Mfg plans, test plans and results, etc.

Arrows lead from Dialog Records to Knowledge Products and in the opposite direction, indicating how dialog leveraging external intelligence both supports creation of knowledge products and is a primary subject of a continuing stream of dialog.

Wann und von wem wurde die Computermaus erfunden?

Das war 1964 und diese wurde von Douglas C. Engelbart am Stanford Research Institute erdacht.

Er und sein Team entwickelten in den 1960er Jahren Bitmap-Bildschirme, die erste Computermaus, Hypertext, Vorläufer der grafischen Benutzeroberfläche, einschließlich Telekonferenzen mit gemeinsamem Bildschirm.

Ende 1968 präsentierte er in San Fransisco die erste Videokonferenz, die "Mutter aller Demos".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C._Engelbart

#maus #engelbart #lug

Screenshot aus "Doug Engelbart - A Tribute", Auszug aus "Mother of all Demos":
SW-Foto von D.Engelbart mit folgendem Text:
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

Screenshot aus "Douglas Engelbart - A Tribute", Auszug aus "Mother of all Demos":
Videokonferenz mit eingeblendetem Teilnehmer beim gemeinsamen Bearbeiten eines Dokumentes.

Auszug aus "Mother of all Demos": Funktionsweise der Maus an einem Beispiel gezeigt.

A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset

Not only that, but a good introduction to this device in general and the context around it. A good read!

#keeb, #history, #engelbart, #electronics

A portrait of our current moment.
#ai #pokemon #tech #engelbart

A screenshot of the chat window on the Twitch stream 'Claude Plays Pokemon'.

The highlighted comment states "This is the culmination of the entire modern computing industry. Douglas Englebart would be rolling in his grave at mach 5 if he wasnt cremated."

Douglas Engelbart
Born 100 Years Ago Today
30 Jan 1925

“By ‘augmenting human intellect’ we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” — Douglas Engelbart (1962)

An essay on Engelbart’s motivation, with links to video and other historical sources on his life and work.

#Engelbart #hypertext #botd
https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2386

A web page essay on ‘What Motivates Doug Engelbart’ starting with a long quote from Engelbart’s 1962 ‘Augmenting Human Intellect’ report.

By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. Increased capability in this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insoluble. And by "complex situations" we include the professional problems of diplomats, executives, social scientists, life scientists, physical scientists, attorneys, designers--whether the problem situation exists for twenty minutes or twenty years. We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human "feel for a situation" usefully co-exist with powerful concepts, streamlined terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered electronic aids. 1a1

Quote from Doug Engelbart Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, October 1962

Happy Mother Of All Demos to those who celebrate. #engelbart
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/MotherOfAllDemos

"Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, ‘dealing lightning with both hands.’ At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world.” — John Markoff

9:00 AM PST 9 Dec, 2008
#Engelbart #Hypertext #UX
#dougday
http://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog912

Screenshot of a 2008 blog post celebrating the 9 Dec 1968 anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos demonstration of his Augment/NLS hypertext and video collaboration system. The screenshot features a photo captured from the video screen of NLS. It shows a split screen view with hypertext on the left, and a live video of Engelbart’s head and shoulders on the right. He wears a white shirt and tie along with a headphone with a microphone. He speaks to the NLS system’s video camera and the 2,000 person audience in the AFIPS 1968 JCCC auditorium in San Francisco. The live NLS feed was projected over Engelbart’s head onto a 22 foot high screen as he demonstrated NLS using his own screen and a mouse — invented by Egelbart and his SRI team for NLS. Engelbart smiles gently. The blog post includes a long quote from John Markoff’s ‘What the Dormouse Said’ book on 1960’s Silicon Valley computer culture, in a chapter about the Demo.

Les événements du 17 novembre.
En 1970, le pionnier de l’informatique Douglas #Engelbart reçoit le brevet de la première souris d’ordinateur. Il avait déposé sa demande le 21 juin 1967. Engelbart est aussi célèbre pour sa conférence « The Mother of All demos » du 9 décembre 1968, ou il présente les concepts futuristes pour l’époque de la visioconférence, le courrier électronique, et enfin le système hypertexte.
https://www.histoiredesinventions.com/17-novembre/

Ha, that’s what “dealing lightning with both hands” really looks like

#Engelbart #MotherOfAllDemos

https://mstdn.social/@yurnidiot/112011246497517375

@sf105

IIRC, funding was always a problem.

he thought the future of computing was terminals to servers, not personal computers. this dried up quite a bit of interest/funding as PCs came into focus.

and, like #TedNelson, #Engelbart thought in ways that few others did. they missed much of his wisdom as he was "too early".

i think the biggest blow to his work was the lack of interest by business research labs (Xerox, ATT, IBM, etc.) as they funded mac/pc products instead.

Engelbart's law: the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential. On this 55th anniversary of his seminal "mother of all demos", Douglas Engelbart's observation that we can improve on our improvements remains valid, but I also wonder if we're entering a new phase of improvement wrt LLMs where the ability to improve will not just be in the sphere of humanity, but also in the sphere of machines as co-creators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbart%27s_law

#llms #engelbart #motherofalldemos

@bosak 🧵Doug #Engelbart

1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (complete) [re-mastered]

Courtesy of the Doug Engelbart Institute YouTube channel. The video’s description includes reference links and transcript.

#hypertext #video

https://youtu.be/j-m2caXfMNM?si=QYtGkRHW-0VXm9Ji

@bosak 🧵 Doug #Engelbart

“The complexity of problems facing mankind is outpacing our ability to solve them”
— Doug Engelbart

I like Doug’s Introduction to ‘Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework’. He referred to it as the ‘bible’ of his research and explanation of everything he hoped to accomplish.

Doug was like a biblical prophet too, with a soft voice, kind smile, but firm clear vision.

Augment report: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html#1a1

By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. Increased capability in this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insoluble. And by "complex situations" we include the professional problems of diplomats, executives, social scientists, life scientists, physical scientists, attorneys, designers-whether the problem situation exists for twenty minutes or twenty years. We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human "feel for a situation" usefully coexist with powertul concepts, streamlined terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered electronic aids. 1a1 …

Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" was presented 55 years ago today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

It changed the way people thought about computers in the 1960s.

Before Jobs, Before Altman, there was Engelbart.

#Engelbart #computerHistory

#TicketToWatch The Augmentation of Douglas #Engelbart | Full Documentary
via #ChronoMedia https://mprove.de/chrono?q=37.78903,-122.40419&z=13.03&t=0&m=XYarpanet1969&o=0.4&i=ChronoMedia

piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=_7ZtISeGyCY&list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F&index=6
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZtISeGyCY&list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F&index=6

#DougDay

Dealing lightning with both hands... Dec 9, 1968

"Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, ‘dealing lightning with both hands.’ At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world.” — John Markoff, 'What the Dormouse Said'

#hypertext #engelbart

http://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog912

Screenshot of Augment/NLS system split screen showing a NLS outline to the left, and head and shoulder live view of Douglas Engelbart to the right. Engelbart smiles and wears a microphone headset. ‘Mother of All Demos’, NCC San Francisco, 9 Dec 1968

Listening to this now.. it's pretty great. 🙂

"Douglas Engelbart invented the 21st Century! In 1968 his Mother of All Demos showed how together work in social networks, using computer screens with graphic user interface, mouse, word processors, hyperlinks, online document sharing and video-conferencing, as part of his plan to Augment Human Intelligence."

#engelbart #levelC #systemsthinking

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-w6pbf-1921e941

#Engelbart

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