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Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse.
Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
Tracing the Dynabook
A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages; Alan Kay - 1972 (PDF)
As We May Think
There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends.
Vannevar Bush was already famous as a designer of analog computers, and also an expert in the field of micrographics. He was already aware of the automated electronic information retrieval/control systems in use at places like MIT. Their origins lay in Europe with the coterie gathered around Paul Otlet, and they had a fully functional hypertext system with iconic access in 1912.
Re-visiting and revising the famous Bushy Tree diagram of the li
The Analog Color Field Computer
The Analog Color Field Computer (ACFC) is an interactive video and sound installation that makes both minimal and maximal use of computer monitors.
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data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics



