Home | Contact April 24, 2002 New Web Site Launched Bootstrap Alliance's Web site has been reorganized and redesigned. Many thanks to our many volunteers who helped with the redesign. We welcome comments, questions, and bug reports. E-mail them to webmaster@bootstrap.org. April 22, 2002 TouchGraph WikiBrowser v1.01 Alex Shapiro announced the release of TouchGraph WikiBrowser v1.01. New features ...

WELCOME to the MouseSite, a 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. As a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley after World War II Doug Engelbart began to imagine ways in which all sorts of information could be displayed on the ...

Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as tools for intellectual work and social activity, was not an invention of the ...

Of Mice, men and machines: By Andrew Leonard. Doug Engelbart invented the mouse -- and much more. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. ...

Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos' Doug Engelbart's presentation at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of the pioneering work that Engelbart's group had been doing at SRI. Later called The Mother of All Demos by Andy van Dam, this historic demonstration paved the way for human-computer interaction. Sections of it are currently on ...

A ONE-OF-A-KIND, DAY-LONG SYMPOSIUM STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DECEMBER 9, 1998 It was like a UFO landing on the White House lawn. Nothing has been the same since in computing. We are going to examine not only what has happened since then, but also what has not emerged yet -- the unfinished part of that revolution. -Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future. WHY YOU ...

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Dreaming of the Future Douglas Engelbart COMMENTARY From BYTE Magazine, Vol. 20(9):330, Sept. 1995 Digital technology could help make this a better world. But we've also got to change our way of thinking. As a researcher and inventor in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Douglas Englebart envisioned most of the computing concepts we now take for granted (windows, word processing, hypermedia, ...

The Man Behind the Mouse Of all the pioneers of personal computers and the Web, Douglas Engelbart may be the poorest and least-known. But the man who invented the mouse is finally winning recognition as the 1997 winner of the Lemelson-MIT prize--a $500, 000 jackpot awarded annually to an American inventor. Engelbart, 72, began his work in 1951. In the 1960s, at Stanford Research Institute, his ...

Audio Excerpt Augment and the Bootstrap Institute Douglas Engelbart Distinguished Scientist Bootstrap Project at Stanford NLS/Augment is arguably the genesis of hypertext, linked media online webs. This project continues to be at the core of the Bootstrap Institute. This talk will concentrate on how our technology, which Engelbart founded, leverages collaborative work and workplaces and allows ...

Of Mice, men and machines: By Andrew Leonard. Doug Engelbart invented the mouse -- and much more. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system. ...