"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." 2A

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Note: This site contains links to other sites of related interest.  2B

December 14, 2000
1987 Interviews with Douglas Engelbart,
an "Oral History" in the series "Stanford and the Silicon Valley"
Interviewers: Judy Adams and Henry Lowood. Editor: Thierry Bardini.  3

Interview 1: Personal and family history / Early educational interests / Training in radar technology / time in the military / reading of Vannevar Bush / Undergraduate at Corvallis / Graduate School at the Berkeley School of Engineering / Ames Research Center / Setting professional goals / Workstation idea / Back to school at Berkeley and the Caldex project / Work for Morton / Dissertation / Gas tubes / Recruiters and patents; deciding on a job / Digital techniques / Investors and Hale / Change in direction / Stanford connections / SRI / Defense Department Support / Building professional connections.  3A

Interview 2: Digital techniques discussion / Patent process / Marchant calculator / Demise of digital techniques / Teaching at Berkeley / Early computers and programming / Stanford Research Institute / Electrical engineering programs at SRI / Air Force Office of Scientific Research / Implications of the report "Augmenting Human Intellect" (1962) / ARPA and development of artificial intelligence / The Augmentation Research Center at SRI / Bootstrapping / Computers / Management complexities / NASA connections / Bill English / NLS (On-Line Systems).  3B

Interview 3: ARC ca. 1964 / Timesharing / ARPA directors / Naming the Augmentation Research Center / Research management lines at SRI / SRI organization vs. sponsorship / SRI patent and licensing / Conceptual framework / Augmentation and human capability / The mouse / Other aspects of NLS / Programmers / 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference / Oregon State 'Distinguished Alumnus of the Year" Award (1987) / Xerox PARC migration. 3C  

Interview 4: NLS in the 1970s / ARPANet / ARPANet Network Information Center / The journal system / Command system / ARPA's continuing support / The sale of NLS/ARC to Tymshare / Impact of the microcomputer / The Xerox Alto / Tymshare / Augment at Tymshare and McDonnell-Douglas Information Systems / McDonnell-Douglas Information Systems / Collaborative research efforts / Stanford connections.  3D

Appendices  3E

June 24, 2002
1998 Symposium: The Unfinished Revolution  4

The 1998 symposium may be viewed online or from videotape. This symposium was followed in the year 2000 by a colloquium named "The Unfinished Revolution - II" - see Colloquium  4A