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Here’s the abstract for the talk. We hope to see as many of you as can make it. For those interested in the pre-talk Multivalent Browser demo, please see the bottom of this email for Instructions on where to go.
UC Berkeley Digital Library Seminar Monday, April 8, 2002 306 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30pm
Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, The Bootstrap Alliance
Abstract:
In the past fifty years we have seen enormous growth in computing capability - computing is everywhere and has impacted nearly everything. In this talk, Dr. Douglas Engelbart, who pioneered much of what we now take for granted as interactive computing, examines the forces that have shaped this growth. He argues that our criteria for investment in innovation are, in fact, short-sighted and focused on the wrong things. He proposes, instead, investment in an improvement infrastructure that can result in sustained, radical innovation capable of changing computing and expanding the kinds of problems that we can address through computing. In this talk, Dr. Engelbart describes both the processes that we need to put in place and the capabilities that we must support in order to stimulate this higher rate of innovation. The talk closes with a call to action for the Digital Library community, since this is a group that has both a stake in innovation and the ability to shape its direction.
For further reference, see also www.bootstrap.org and the paper Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware - Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, 1992 http://www.bootstrap.org/augdocs/augment-132811.htm
For those interested in the MVB Demo: Directions
Here’s who I have down for the Multivalent Browser (MVB) Demo between 3-4 pm. They refer to the project as MVD where D stands for document.
John Deneen John Maloney Jack Park Sheldon Brahms
If I have left anyone out who emailed me, please accept my apologies in advance I am somewhat behind in email this week.
We have requested this time so as to provide the BA-OHS-Talk community an opportunity to discuss with the designer/developer Tom Phelps (Wilensky unfortunately is not able to join us at this time) specifically how far the MVB might take us as a stepping stone to the Hyperscope.
Jack Park feels that a good candidate for the Intermediate File format is the treasure that we might find buried in the code that allows the MVB to access legacy files.
Here’s where to find out more about MVB http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/java/help/About.html
Because this is a small number, we are likely to be in Robert Wilensky’s office In the Berkeley CS department. If there are others who are planning to come to this earlier session, please let me know by Sunday evening so that we can make other arrangements for moving to a larger room.
Mei Lin Fung
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