1969 Demo Interactive - Doug Engelbart Institute

INTRODUCTION 1

Preface (Silent)
Presentation by Doug Engelbart and staff at SRI for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) | Our Sponsors: ARPA, NASA, RADC-USAF.

Some views of our lab (Silent)
Video camera briefly pans the lab.

Welcoming remarks
This is a final rehearsal for the ASIS conference. For starters pretend I have a fancy slide projector, and a pointer that points on the screen.

Description of presentation setup
Doug shows a rough schematic of the computer, workstation, and projection setup supporting this demo.

Who and what we are
The Augmented Human Intellect Research Center (AHIRC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) | multiple sponsors | special lab facilities | a long-term goal-oriented program.

INTRODUCTION (cont) 2

ASIS, System Development, and AHIRC
We are developing a system for augmenting system developers; we are both developers and end-users of this augmentation system.

Control Devices
Providing a powerful vehicle for flying thru information space, at any point change our views or manipulate info on the fly, using: Mouse and bug | Keyboard | Keyset.

Collaboration Techniques
Dave Evans beams in from the lab to share screens and demonstrate basic features.

NLS AS AN "INSTRUMENT" 3

DAE: Basic Description of NLS
Dave Evans shows how we work with the text, structure information, and use NLS as an instrument in our 'information space' | simple editing, viewing options, jumping, [end Reel 1]

[DAE continues on Reel 2] creating and using hyperlinks, more viewing options | at 3:18 Doug emphasizes a few key points, while Dave shows maps of this information space.

Information-Space Vehicle
NLS as an Instrument and Vehicle for helping humans to operate within a domain of complex information structures.

Information-System Functional Support
Here's a SYSTEM, with customers to provide info, end users, a team to develop it; we emphasize the Sys Dev aspect, to develop Systems of all kinds, esp Info Systems, for Sys Dev

AHI-DEVELOPMENT EXAMPLES 4

WHP: System Development
Bill Paxton demonstrates how we use the NLS system for System Development, with a tour inside the NLS system developers' information space, including actual code.

MSC: System Operation
Mary Church demonstrates use of NLS as an Information System, using the forthcoming Network Information Center for the ARPANET as a case in point [end Reel 2]

[MSC continues on Reel 3] more viewing and query options using the content analyzer with keywords and content patterns, quickly and flexibly navigating and telescoping in and out of specific detail

JCN: System Management
Jim Norton demonstrates its use for administrative and program management.

OTHER RELEVANT AHIRC DEVELOPMENTS AND PLANS 5

Guest List
Doug demonstrates what we can do with this event's guest list (entered by staff while he was busy presenting above)

NET: The ARPANET
Describes ARPA's forthcoming ARPANET coming online next year (Note: Doug's lab will test the first transmissions later this month with Kleinrock's lab at UCLA)

NIC: Network Information Center
Provisions for a Network Information Center they are developing for ARPANET users.

Hard-Copy Output
Doug shows the publish-quality output available.

DSS: Dialog Support System
Adding Backlinks and Journal system for example, enabling a flexible fast-acting team, evolving our team work, changing roles, how we pool our knowledge and act on it, etc.

CONCLUSION 6

Summary
We've shown you a vehicle, the structuring of information and information space thru which that vehicle is equipped to carry us, the types of maneuvers we can use, and the sorts of trails;

and the applications that give us the ability to move around quickly, and to use modification and viewing tools to enable our system development work, our file development work, our management.

Credits
Doug thanks the sponsors and his entire team, beginning with our Co-Presenters | Our master Stage Manager: Bill English | Video and Audio Control: Martin Hardy |

About this demo —

Experience the sequel to the "Mother of All Demos" presented by Doug Engelbart and team at the ASIS Conference, October 1st, 1969. Click on any frame or section above to navigate the presentation. For some background on a related demo produced the prior year, visit theDemo.org which includes the story of the Mother of All Demos, optional ways to watch the demo, plus photos, writings, and other gems from the archives, with links to special exhibits at Stanford Special Collections, the Computer History Museum, the Smithsonian, and more. For more on Doug's vision for the future, see our virtual Engelbart Academy.

Film footage copyright SRI International, remastered and curated by Stanford Libraries Special Collections, and digitally archived on Internet Archive in the Engelbart Video Collection.

About this page —

A special collaboration between Christina Engelbart (DEI) and Bret Victor (Dynamicland).

Along the lines of Doug's persistent vision to foster tools that augment our intellect, using the outline from his presentation, index and descriptions by Christina, the above dynamic interactive experience is powered by Bret's video digest tool, an attempt as he would say "to 'explode' a demo-driven talk into a skimmable, browsable, gistable form, where individual ideas can be quickly referenced later."

For inspiration see his seminal talk Media for Thinking the Unthinkable which inspired the project at UC Berkeley to develop an experimental Video Digest tool.

This video digest is dedicated to our hero Doug Engelbart.