Guide to the Douglas Engelbart Symposia Records
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
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Overview
Call Number: SC0561
Title: Douglas Engelbart symposia records
Dates: 1998, 2008
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Summary: The materials consist of videorecordings, brochures and handouts from the symposia, clippings, press releases, press kit,
photographs from the event, and a videotape of TV coverage from various news shows.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
The materials are open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
Douglas Engelbart Symposia Records (SC0561). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Stanford University Libraries in conjunction with the Institute for the Future presented on December 9, 1998 a celebration
of the 30th anniversary of Douglas Engelbart's invention of the computer mouse.
Description of the Collection
The materials consist of videorecordings, brochures and handouts from the event, clippings, press releases, press kit, photographs
from the event, and a videotape of TV coverage from various news shows.
Access Terms
Engelbart's unfinished revolution (1998 : Stanford, Calif.)
Engelbart, D. C., 1925-
Computers --History.
Computers --Technological innovations.
Videorecordings.
General note
Contact Public Services (e-mail: speccollref@stanford.edu) for information on accessing digital objects in this collection.
Collection Contents
Box 1
Accession ARCH-1999-073
"Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" records
1998 Dec 9
Scope and Content Note
Brochures and handouts from the symposia, clippings, press releases, press kit, and photographs from the event.
Biography/Organization History
On December 9th, 1998 Stanford University Libraries and the Institute for the Future presented a day-long, public symposium
that brought together Engelbart and members of his historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the impact
of Engelbart's work on the last three decades of the computer revolution, to explore the challenges facing us today, and to
speculate about the next three decades.
Accession ARCH-2005-231
"Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" videorecordings
1998 Dec 9
Box 2
561.2
Session 1
1998
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP L)
Scope and Content Note
Session 1: 9:00-10:40 Morning
9:00 Greeting and Introductions from Condoleezza Rice, Michael A. Keller, Paul Saffo (Moderator) 9:15 Panel Discussion on
the 1968 Demo: Engelbart, Brand, English, Irby, Rulifson 10:15 Tim Lenoir
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 2U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.3
Session 2
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP L)
Scope and Content Note
Session 2: 11:00-12:40 Morning
11:00 Panel Discussion on the Last 30 Years: Andreessen, Caruso, Nielson, Rheingold, Zappacosta 11:40 Alan Kay 12:10 Panel
Discussion on New Horizons: Card, Drexler, Evans, Horn, Markoff
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 3U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.4
Session 3a
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP L)
Scope and Content Note
Session 3: 2:00-3:30 Afternoon
2:00 Unfinished Revolution Conversation: Engelbart, Rulifson 2:30 Ted Nelson 3:00 Andy van Dam
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 4U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.5
Session 3b
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP)
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 5U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.6
Session 4
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP L)
Scope and Content Note
Session 4: 3:50-5:30 Afternoon
3:50 Terry Winograd 4:20 Stewart Brand 4:50 Jaron Lanier 5:20 Closing Remarks 5:30 Adjourn
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 6U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.7
1968 Presentation Highlights
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP)
Scope and Content Note
Highlighs from December 9, 1968 presentation during which Doug Engelbart and a small team of researchers from the Stanford
Research Institute stunned the computing world with an extraordinary demonstration at a San Francisco computer conference.
They debuted: the computer mouse, graphical user interface, display editing and integrated text and graphics, hyper-documents,
and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces. These concepts and technologies were to become the cornerstones of
modern interactive computing.
That landmark 1968 demonstration took place at the American Federation of Information Processing Societies' Fall Joint Computer
Conference. At a time when computers were little more than huge number-crunchers, Engelbart and his team's introduction of
their two-way interactive system, called NLS (for oN Line System) was a shock.
Today the mouse, graphical user interface, hyper-documents, display editing and integrated text and graphics are taken for
granted. Other features of NLS, such two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces, remain more vision than reality even
today. And some of NLS' most important elements, such as the concept of bootstrapping, remain so novel that they are all but
unknown to the current generation of systems designers.
NLS' 1968 demo was a watershed that fundamentally changed the trajectory of the computing revolution, contributing not only
ideas, but also many of the people who would later build the systems we would use today. Alumni of the NLS project (and its
successor, the Augment project) include many of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere). Others credit
Doug's work in general, and the 1968 demo in particular with influencing their design philosophies. As personal computing
pioneer and visionary Alan Kay once observed, "I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug's ideas."
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 7U
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Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.8
Video roll-ins
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (Betacam-SP L)
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 8U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
561.9
News clips re: 30th anniversary of the mouse
1998 Dec 6-13
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (VHS)
Scope and Content Note
CBS This Morning (3:27); Newscenter Four Nightbeat (:48); ZDTV Network News(5:05); The Screen Savers (7:20); Silicon Valley
Business (4:26; 1:23); Fox X-Press (:17)
Accession ARCH-2011-080
"Boosting Collective IQ" videorecordings and slides
2008 Aug 4-22
Scope and Content Note
In August 2008 the Doug Engelbart Institute sponsored an extended three way discussion between leading experts Doug Engelbart,
Jeff Rulifson, and Christina Engelbart, drilling down into the depths of Doug's vision using the Bootstrap "Paradigm Map"
interactive slide presentation. This informal discussion, spanning four days, was filmed in a TV studio at Stanford University.
The Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" is Doug Engelbart's interactive visual portrayal of his call to action, depicting his vision
and strategy for dramatically raising our Collective IQ toward more effective organizations and a better world.
Box 2
Session 1 of 4
2008 Aug 4
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (DVCAM)
Scope and Content Note
From the Bootstrap Dialogs Project – Doug Engelbart, Jeff Rulifson, and Christina Engelbart discuss the Bootstrap "Paradigm
Map" in-depth at Stanford Video - Stanford University's television studios.
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 1U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
Session 2 of 4
2008 Aug 6
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (DVCAM)
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 2U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
Session 3 of 4
2008 Aug 8
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (DVCAM)
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 3U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
Box 2
Session 4 of 4
2008 Aug 22
Physical Description:
1 videotape(s) (DVCAM)
Duplicating master
Physical Description:
1 computer file(s) (MP4)
Box 4U
Use copy
Physical Description:
1 optical disc(s) (DVD)
PDF format minus the animation
PowerPoint slideshow with animation
