Bibliography 0

Following is a Detailed Listing of publications by Engelbart and his staff. See also Summary Listing showing only title and year for each publication. 0a

Articles 1

Articles by Doug Engelbart and his team from 1958 to the present. 1a

  1. Facets of the Technical Information Problem. Charles P. Bourne and Douglas C. Engelbart, The Magazine of Datamation, September/October 1958 (AUGMENT,133180,). 1a1
  2. Special Considerations of the Individual as a User, Generator, and Retriever of Information. Douglas C. Engelbart, American Documentation, 12: 2, April 1961,, pp. 121-125. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Documentation Institute, Berkeley, CA, October 23-27, 1960 (AUGMENT,585,) and (AUGMENT,133181,). 1a2
  3. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart, Summary Report, Stanford Research Institute, on Contract AF 49(638)-1024, October 1962, 134 pages. (AUGMENT,3906,). Also available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. Republished with article No. 6 in New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort [Ed.], The MIT Press, 2003, Chapters 8 and 16. New! See our Field Guide to the Augmenting Human Intellect Collection. 1a3
  4. A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect. by Douglas C. Engelbart, Chapter 1 in Vistas in Information Handling, Howerton and Weeks [Ed.], Spartan Books, Washington, D. C., 1963, pp. 1-29. (AUGMENT,133183,). Note: This is an abridged edition of #3. See also PDF/Printand eReader formats. Republished with articles No. 6, 21, and. 23 below in Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, Irene Greif [Ed.], Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1988, pp. 35-65. Also republished in Organization and Groupware, T. Nishigaki [Ed.], NTT Publishing, 1992. 1a4
  5. Display-Selection Techniques for Text Manipulation. William K. English, Douglas C. Engelbart and Melvyn L. Berman, IEEE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, HFE-8: 1 (March 1967), pp. 5-15 (AUGMENT,9694,). 1a5
  6. A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect. Douglas C. Engelbart and William K. English, AFIPS Conference Proceedings of the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, CA, 33, December 1968, pp. 395-410 (AUGMENT,3954,). Republished with articles No. 4, 21, and 23 in Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, Irene Greif [Ed.], Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1988, pp. 81-105. Also republished with article No. 3 in New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort [Ed.], The MIT Press, 2003, Chapters 8 and 16. See also Engelbart's videotaped presentation from this historic 1968 conference (aka "Mother of All Demos"). 1a6
  7. Intellectual Implications of Multi-Access Computer Networks. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Multi-Access Computer Networks, Austin, TX, April 1970 (AUGMENT,5255,). 1a7
  8. Coordinated Information Services for a Discipline- or Mission-Oriented Community. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the Second Annual Computer Communications Conference, San Jose, CA, January 24, 1973 (AUGMENT,12445,). Also published in Computer Communication Networks, R. L. Grimsdale and F.F. Kuo [Ed.], Noordhoff-Leyden, 1975. 1a8
  9. Design Considerations for Knowledge Workshop Terminals. Douglas C. Engelbart, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 42, National Computer Conference, June 4-8, 1973, pp. 221-227 (AUGMENT,14851,). 1a9
  10. The Augmented Knowledge Workshop. Douglas C. Engelbart, Richard W. Watson and James C. Norton, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 42, National Computer Conference, June 4-8, 1973, pp. 9-21 (AUGMENT,14724,). 1a10
  11. Display Techniques for Interactive Text Manipulation. Charles H. Irby, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, National Computer Conference, 1974, pp. 247-255 (AUGMENT,133185,). 1a11
  12. Line Processor -- A Device for Amplification of Display Terminal Capabilities for Text Manipulation. Donald I. Andrews, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, National Computer Conference, 1974, pp. 257-265 (AUGMENT,20184,). 1a12
  13. NLS Teleconferencing Features: The Journal and Shared-Screen Telephoning. Douglas C. Engelbart, COMPCON '75 Digest: Proceedings of the COMPCON Conference, September 9-11 1975, pp. 173-176 [IEEE Catalog No. 75CH0988-6C] (AUGMENT,33076,). 1a13
  14. A High-Level Framework for Network-Based Resource Sharing. James E. White, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 45, National Computer Conference, June 6-7, 1976, pp. 561-570 (AUGMENT,34263,). 1a14
  15. User Interface Design Issues for a Large Interactive System. Richard W. Watson, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 45, National Computer Conference, June 6-7, 1976, pp. 357-364 (AUGMENT,27171,). 1a15
  16. The Command Meta-Language System. Charles H. Irby, 1976 [written for the 1976 National Computer Conference but not published] (AUGMENT,27266,). 1a16
  17. The Design and Implementation of DAD, A Multiprocess, Multimachine, Multilanguage Interactive Debugger. Kenneth E. Victor, Proceedings of the Tenth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, University of Hawaii, 1977, pp. 196-199 (AUGMENT,29079,). 1a17
  18. A Software Engineering Environment. Kenneth E. Victor, Proceedings of AIAA/NASA/IEEE/ACM Computers In Aerospace Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 31-November 2, 1977, pp. 399-403 (AUGMENT,29292,). 1a18
  19. Toward Integrated, Evolutionary Office Automation Systems. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the Joint Engineering Management Conference, Denver, CO, October 16-18 1978, pp. 63-68 (AUGMENT,71279,). Republished with article No. 20 below in "Emerging Office Systems," Robert Landau, James Bair and Jeannie Siegman, [Ed.], Ablex Publications Corporation, Norwood, NJ, 1982, pp. 297-308. 1a19
  20. Evolving the Organization of the Future: A Point of View. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the Stanford International Symposium on Office Automation, March 23-25, 1980 (AUGMENT,80360,). Republished with Item No.19 above in "Emerging Office Systems," Robert Landau, James Bair and Jeannie Siegman, [Ed.], Ablex Publications Corporation, Norwood, NJ, 1982, pp. 287-296. 1a20
  21. Toward High-Performance Knowledge Workers. Douglas C. Engelbart, OAC '82 Digest, Proceedings of the AFIPS Office Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 5-7 1982, pp. 279-290 (AUGMENT,81010,). Republished with articles No. 4, 6, 19 and 23 in Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, Irene Greif [Ed.], Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1988, pp. 67-78. 1a21
  22. Collaboration Support Provisions in AUGMENT. Douglas C. Engelbart, OAC '84 Digest: Proceedings of the AFIPS Office Automation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 20-22 1984, pp. 51-58 (OAD,2221,). 1a22
  23. Authorship Provisions in AUGMENT. Douglas C. Engelbart, COMPCON '84 Digest: Proceedings of the COMPCON Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 27 - March 1, 1984, pp. 465-472 (OAD,2250,). Republished with articles No.4, 6, and 21 in Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, Irene Greif [Ed.], Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1988, pp. 107-126. Also in Groupware: Software for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, D. Marca and G. Bock [Ed.], IEEE, 1992. 1a23
  24. Workstation History and The Augmented Knowledge Workshop. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations, Palo Alto, CA, January 9-10, 1986, pp. 73-83 (AUGMENT,101931,). See also Video of Engelbart's multi-media presentation at this historic conference.

    Republished as The Augmented Knowledge Workshop in A History of Personal Workstations, Adele Goldberg [Ed.], ACM Press, New York, 1988, pp. 185-236. See also Video of Engelbart's multi-media presentation at this historic conference. 1a24
  25. Working Together. Douglas C. Engelbart and Harvey Lehtman, BYTE Magazine, December 1988, pp. 245-252 (AUGMENT,133186,). 1a25
  26. The Augmentation System Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart and Kristina Hooper, a chapter in Interactive Multimedia, Sueann Ambron and Kristina Hooper [Ed.], Microsoft Press, 1988, pp. 14-31 [print-version] (AUGMENT,133187,). 1a26
  27. Bootstrapping and the Handbook Cycle. Douglas C. Engelbart and Christina Engelbart, Telematics and Informatics, 7: 1, January 5 1990, pp. 27-32 (AUGMENT,132418,). 1a27
  28. Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Los Angeles, CA, October 7-10, 1990, pp. 143-156 (AUGMENT,132082,). Republished in Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook, Emily Berk and Joseph Devlin [Ed.], McGraw-Hill, 1991, pp. 397-413. 1a28
  29. Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware. Douglas C. Engelbart, Proceedings of the GroupWare '92 Conference, San Jose, CA, August 3-5, 1992, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (AUGMENT,132811,). See also Engelbart's videotaped presentation from this conference. 1a29
  30. Toward Augmenting the Human Intellect and Boosting our Collective IQ. Douglas C. Engelbart, Communications of the ACM, 38: 8, August 1995, pp. 30-33 [print-version] (AUGMENT,133188,). 1a30
  31. Dreaming of the Future. Douglas C. Engelbart, BYTE, 20: 9, Special "20 Years" Issue, September 1995, p. 330 [print-version | full issue | links to pages featuring Doug Engelbart] (AUGMENT,133189,). 1a31
  32. Improving our ability to improve: A call for investment in a new future. Douglas C. Engelbart, Keynote address, World Library Summit, April 23-26, 2002, Singapore. [print-version] (AUGMENT,133320,), published in Global Knowledge Renaissance: Selected Papers from the World Library Summit 2002, Time Books. See also the Report on the WLS event. Abridged 2nd Edition: Improving our ability to improve: A call for investment in a new future, for the IBM Co-Evolution Symposium, 24 Sep 2003 [print-version] (AUGMENT,133321,). 1a32
  33. Augmenting Society's Collective IQs. Douglas C. Engelbart, Hypertext 2004. A succinct abstract of Engelbart's Keynote Speech [print-version] (AUGMENT,133319,). 1a33

Books 2

Special bound collections of Engelbart's articles and management seminar courseware: 2a

  1. The Augmentation Papers - A Collection since 1960, Douglas C. Engelbart, 1994. A bound collection of papers by Doug Engelbart and his staff (articles #2-29 from Section 1 above, plus Item 1 from Section 4 below), plus a short biographical sketch. Chronicles the progression and unfolding of Engelbart's work. This item is currently out of print. 2a1
  2. Boosting Our Collective IQ: A Selection of Readings, Douglas C. Engelbart, 1995. 31 pages. Originally published in a special edition of 2,000 copies for attendees of the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, December 1995, to mark the occasion of the SoftQuad Web Award being presented to Doug Engelbart at that conference. Includes three key papers from Section 1 above edited together (articles #30, #28, #29), plus epilogue and award information. (AUGMENT,133150,). 2a2
  3. COURSEWARE: Boosting Collective IQ: A Design for Dramatic Improvements in Productivity, Effectiveness and Competitiveness. 1994. 122 pages. Access the booklet in two formats [pdf|eReader]. Produced for Engelbart's half-day management seminar, used extensively mid to late 1990s. See for example the 1995 seminar video from this very informal small-group seminar in 1995. Courseware includes 73 presentation slides, plus selected readings from Section 1 above (articles #23, #25, #29). 2a3
  4. COURSEWARE: Bootstrap Seminar Binder. 1992. 316 pages. Access the booklet in two formats [TOC|pdf]. Produced for Engelbart's three-day intensive management seminars held during the early 1990s. See for example the Seminar video sessions from this March 1992 Bootstrap Seminar. Includes 354 presentation slides plus selected readings from Section 1 above (articles #7, #21, #22, #23, #25, #28, #29), and a two-part Patricia Seybold article. 2a4

See Engelbart Books for a complete, illustrated listing of books by Engelbart, and by others featuring Engelbart and his works. 2b

Video 3

Video recordings of presented papers. Many of the above papers were delivered at conferences, but just a few were captured on film or video, listed below: 3a

  1. Watch A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (90-min) - 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and team - now known as the "Mother of All Demos." More ways to watch at theDemo.org. In his conference session, Engelbart and his team chose to show, rather than tell about, their research in this live online hypermedia presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 1968. See companion Article A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (Item #6 above). Engelbart and team presented the world debut of the computer mouse, computing for knowledge work and team work, video teleconferencing, and other significant firsts. 3a1
  2. Watch The Augmented Knowledge Workshop. Douglas C. Engelbart, 1986. An 82-min. video recording of Engelbart's presentation at the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations, Palo Alto, CA, January 9-10, 1986; companion to Article #24 above. Details the evolutionary development of NLS, including design rationale, and concrete implementation and usage by his team, leading up to the 1968 demo and beyond. Includes historic photos plus 20 minutes of footage excerpted from the historic 1968 FJCC demonstration. More ways to watch at theDemo.org/#Reflecting. 3a2
  3. Watch Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware. Douglas C. Engelbart, 1992. His presentation at the 1992 Groupware Conference; companion to Article #29 above. More ways to watch at the Engelbart Academy. 3a3

For more key videos in our collection visit:
The Engelbart Academy | Key Events | Engelbart Videography | Doug Engelbart Video Archive 3b

White Papers 4

Select thinkpieces by Engelbart not published elsewhere: 4a

  1. Computers and the Challenges of Man. Douglas C. Engelbart for Electronics Magazine, April 28 1961. [print-version] (AUGMENT,133400,).
    2. 4a1
  2. Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century - A Strategic Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart and Christina Engelbart. Bootstrap Institute, December 1991. (AUGMENT,132803). 4a2
  3. Augment's Support of Organizations - A Brief History. Duane L. Stone, 1991. [e-reader view] (AUGMENT,132865,).
    4. 4a3
  4. Technology Template Project - OHS Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart and Harvey Lehtman, January 1998. (ALLIANCE,980,). 4a4
  5. A Draft OHS-Project Plan. Douglas C. Engelbart, October 2000. (BI,2120,). 4a5
  6. Enhanced a2h: Moving AUGMENT files and browsing functionality onto Bootstrap Web. Douglas C. Engelbart, December 2001. (BI,2220,). 4a6
  7. Converging Technologies for Enhancing Human Performance: Science and Business Perspectives. James C. Spohrer and Douglas C. Engelbart, 2003. Later published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 4a7

Reports 5

A selection of key historic reports by Engelbart and team: 5a

  1. Microelectronics and the Art of Similitude, Douglas C. Engelbart, Dec 1959, published in Proceedings of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in Philadelphia, February 1960, Session VII, pp.76-77. Note: This paper summarizes findings from his study on scaling in microelectronics, funded by Wright-Patterson Air Development Center, 1958. 5a1
  2. Program On Human Effectiveness. Douglas C. Engelbart, Dec 1961. (AUGMENT,133401,). Also available in PDF-Print, eReader, and HyperScope formats. Sent with this letter to Vannevar Bush in May, 1962. New! Visit our Field Guide to the Augmenting Human Intellect Collection. 5a2
  3. (Same as Articles#3 above) Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart, Summary Report, Stanford Research Institute, on Contract AF 49(638)-1024, October 1962, 134 pages. (AUGMENT,3906,). Also available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. Republished in abridged form with article No. 6 in New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort [Ed.], The MIT Press, 2003, Chapters 8 and 16. New! See our Field Guide to the Augmenting Human Intellect Collection. 5a3
  4. Augmenting Human Intellect: Experiments, Concepts, and Possibilities. Mar 1965. (XDOC--9691,). Prepared for Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), AF 49(638)-1024, SRI Project No. 3578. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a4
  5. User's Guide - Man-Machine Information System. Jun 1965. Prepared for Air Force Electronic Systems Division, Contract AF19(628)-4088, ESD-TDR-65-168, SRI Project No. 4987. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a5
  6. Computer-Aided Display Control - Final Report, Douglas C. Engelbart, Jul 1965. (XDOC--9692,). Prepared for NASA Langley Research Center, Contract NAS1-3988, Report Number NASA-CR-66111, SRI Project No. 5061. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a6
  7. Study for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques - Final Report. Jul 1968. (XDOC--3562,). Prepared for NASA Langley Research Center, Contract NAS1-5904, CR-1270, SRI Project No. 5890. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a7
  8. Development of a Multidisplay, Time-Shared Computer Facility and Computer-Augmented Management-System Research - Final Report. April 1968. (Journal--9697,). Prepared for DARPA, RADC Contract AF30(6C2)-4103, SRI Project No. 5919. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a8
  9. Advanced Intellect - Augmentation Techniques - Final Report. Jul 1970. (XDOC--5140,). Prepared for NASA Langley Research Center, Contract NAS 1-7897, CR-1827, SRI Project No. 7079. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a9
  10. Online Team Environment: Network Information Center and Computer Augmented Team Interaction. Jun 1972. (Journal--13041,). Prepared for DARPA, RADC Contract F30602-70-C-0219, SRI Project No. 8457. Available in PDF/Print and eReader formats. 5a10

More reports and proposals may be found at the Stanford MouseSite, Internet Archive, Bitsavers sri::arc, as well as the NASA, DARPA, and ERIC document servers. 5b

Proposals 6

A selection of key historic proposals by Engelbart and team: 6a

  1. The Augmented Human Intellect: Search for a Framework. 1961. Prepared for Air Force Office of Scientific Research to extend current contract. 6a1
  2. Augmented Human Intellect Program. 1962. Proposes modest phase-one R&D lab for Augmenting Human Intellect. 6a2
  3. Bootstrap Alliance Promotional Packet. 1997. Info packet for prospective BA Members. 6a3
  4. Augmenting Knowledge Networks. 1998. A BA proposal re: NSF solicitation on Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence (KDI). 6a4
  5. A Draft OHS-Project Plan. 2000 (BI,2120,). 6a5
  6. Enhanced a2h: Moving AUGMENT files and browsing functionality onto Bootstrap Web. 2001 (BI,2220,). 6a6

Additional Materials 7

  1. See our Field Guide to the Augmenting Human Intellect Collection, which includes above Articles #2, #3, #4, and White Paper #5. 7a
  2. Works About Doug Engelbart for a more complete listing of works published by other authors about Doug Engelbart and his work. 7b
  3. Assorted Augment Tutorials and Userguides. Written by the team at Tymshare 1978-1984, later exported from Augment to HTML by Eugene Kim. See especially Augment Quick Reference pocket card for distillation of commands, address elements, and viewspecs. More can be found at Internet Archive and Bitsavers sri::arc. 7c