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» 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart
   A talk Engelbart gave at IBM Almaden Research Center; audio excerpt, on-site (IBM) links.
   http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/npuc97/1995/engelbart.htm

» A Chat with Doug Engelbart
   From reboot7 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark; video, audio, transcript, photos, links to other websites. [mprove]
   http://www.mprove.de/script/05/reboot/engelbart.html

» Brilliant Careers: Of Mice, Men and Machines
   Doug Engelbart invented the mouse, chording keyboards, outlining, a type of hypertext, windows (tiled), and groupware. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. [Salon]
   http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/15bc.html

» Doug Engelbart's Invisible Revolution
   History project with text audio, video, timelines and blog.
   http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/

» Douglas Engelbart
   Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

» Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
   His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer
   http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html

» Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford University
   Introduction, presenters, program, hosts, sponsors, history, links, press, feedback, video tapes, streaming video.
   http://unrev.stanford.edu/

» MouseSite
   Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
   http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/

» National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart
   Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
   http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html

» The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart
   Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story.
   http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2001/2001_02_21.cover21.html

» The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart
   Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
   http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html

» The Man Behind the Mouse
   Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek]
   http://www.businessweek.com/1997/16/b352372.htm

» Tools For Thought: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker
   By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
   http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html

» Wired News: Upgrading the Human OS
   Story on Stanford University seminar: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution.
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/12/16752