Engelbart, Douglas C. Papers, 1953-1998

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Engelbart, Douglas C. Papers, 1953-1998

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This collection documents that activities of Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer scientist whose pioneering work in the 1950s and 1960s(first at SRI International, later at Tymshare, Inc.) led to the development of the interactive personal computer. Most of thepublications in this collection were produced while Engelbart was at SRI. Includes Professional papers, including correspondence, researchproposals, technical reports, notes, journals, 3 cassette tapes, 11 films and 6 video tape copies of same.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Engelbart, Douglas C.

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Biography Born January 30, 1925. In the late 1940s, Douglas Engelbart was stationed in the Philippines when he read Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" in a Red Cross library. He became an early believer in Bush's idea of a machine that would aid human cognition. Later, he worked at Ames aeronautical lab, and developed the idea that would form the basis of today's computer interfaces. In the early 1960s, Engelbart began ...

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