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Tribute Innovations of '87
NY Times | Nov. 3, 1987 | Peter H. Lewis
Awards presented at COMDEX'87: “Each year at this time, tens of thousands of people who make, sell, buy or use personal computers descend into Las Vegas for the Fall Comdex trade show... Each year, PC Magazine honors designers, engineers and programmers whose work influences virtually everybody who uses a personal computer.. In addition to the 1987 PC Magazine Awards for Technical Excellence, honoring the top innovators across a variety of categories, The award for lifetime achievement went to Douglas Englebart, the father of the mouse, creator of windows and champion of the user interface.”
See also Engelbart Awards for details on this and other honors

Initiatives Computer Scientist Forming a Foundation
NY Times | Sep 5, 1988 | John Markoff
“Douglas C. Engelbart, [...] who is credited with work that led to several other important developments in the personal computer industry, plans to leave his position as a researcher at the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and set up a nonprofit foundation called the Bootstrap Institute. The organization intends to coordinate research and build prototypes of advanced computing software and hardware tools designed to permit computer users to work cooperatively in office and research settings.”

Strategy Of Mice and Men: The mouse is but a small part of Doug Engelbart’s larger quest
Popular Computing | May 1984 | Steven Levy
“An ambitious plan conceived by a truly extraordinary man — Instead of tackling a specific problem, he decided to go about changing the way we dealt with problems, the better to improve the world. He saw that many problems were so complex that it was often beyond human capabilities to solve them. Somehow Doug Engelbart decided to improve – augment is the word he came to use – man’s capabilities to cope with those problems..”
Appeared in Popular Computing Magazine, May 1984, pp. 70, 75-78 | Illustration by Richard Cowdrey

Case Example An evaluation of the AUGMENT system ACM SIGDOC | Jan 1982 | ED Callender “For a period of nine months the author used AUGMENT, an electronic office support system. This paper is an evaluation of that system [available from Doug Engelbart's group at Tymshare, Inc.]” Published in ACM SIGDOC '82: Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Systems Documentation, January 1982, pages 29–35. Available Formats: PDF | eReader | Abstract

Technology Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey IEEE:Computer | Sep 1987 | Jeff Conklin “Hypertext systems feature machine-supported links ... that open exciting new possibilities for using the computer as a communication and thinking tool. This article is a survey of existing hypertext systems, their applications, and their design. It is both an introduction to the world of hypertext and, at a deeper cut, a survey of some of the most important design issues that go into fashioning a hypertext environment. Includes Vannevar Bush Memex, Doug Engelbart's NLS/Augment (pp 22-23), Ted Nelson's Xanadu (pg 23), ...” Access full text

Featuring Doug Engelbart 1

Articles 1a

Computer in 2000. Paul Saffo, The Computer, October 28, 1989. [Japanese]1a1

Forget Batman; let's talk Mighty Mouse!, Jim Warren, Microtimes, August 7, 1989.1a2

Doug Engelbart: Visionary becomes realist. Jim Warren, Microtimes, July 7, 1989.1a3

The X revolution. Daniel Lynch, LAN Technology (Outlook), May 1989.1a4

Pioneer to head new project at Stanford. SU Speaking Of Computers, April 3, 1989.1a5

Inventor of `mouse' receives support for Project Bootstrap. SU Campus Report, March 29, 1989.1a6

A chat with Douglas Engelbart. Wayne Jacques, The Boston Computer Society, Spring 1989. 1a7

The latest trend in how to use personal computers. Asahi, February 15, 1989, March 1, March 15, 1989. 1a8

Doug Engelbart: The vision continues. Howard Rheingold, Microtimes, January 23, 1989. 1a9

Pioneer to head new think tank. Emily Brower, MacWeek, September 27, 1988. 1a10

Where we are, where we aren't. N. Dean Meyer from N. Dean Meyer & Associates and Bill Machrone from PCMagazine, Teleforum, September 22, 1988. 1a11

Computer scientist forming a foundation. John Markoff, The New York Times, September 5, 1988. 1a12

The man who invented the mouse - and many other tools for thought. Barbara Anderson, McDonnell Douglas/Spirit, August 1988. 1a13

Douglas C. Engelbart - A conceptual framework for the augmentation of man's intellect. Edited and annotated by Howard Rheingold, Hyperage, May/June 1988. 1a14

The mouse that roared. McDonnell Douglas' BreakThrough Magazine, 1988.1a21

SRI firsts: The mouse and other innovations. Inside SRI, April 1987. 1a15

The HLAM/T factor: Ted Nelson interviews Doug Engelbart. Subroutines (David Bunnell's Newsletter from Inside the Personal Computer Industry), January 1987. 1a16

The mouse that roared. John Markoff, San Francisco Examiner, March 23, 1986. 1a17

Insight to Engelbart's intellect. Systems Catalyst, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore, June1985. 1a18

Providing a workshop for knowledge workers. Richard G. Canning, EDP Analyzer, August 1984. 1a19

Father of the mouse. John Unger Zussman, A+ Magazine, Vol. 2, July 1984. 1a20

Of mice and men - the mouse is but a small part of Doug Engelbart's larger quest. Steven Levy, Popular Computing, May 1984. 1a21

A mouse in the hand. Daniel Farber, MacWorld(premier issue), May 1984. 1a22

Doug Engelbart: inventor of the mouse. Marion Softky, The Country Almanac, February 15, 1984. 1a23

Super literacy - Network Systems, The CIA and the electronic grail: A writer's quest for perfectly flexible text. Clifford Barney, PC Magazine, February/March 1982. 1a24

An evaluation of the AUGMENT system. E. D. Callender, ACM Proceedings, January 1982. 1a24

Video/TV 1b

Featuring Doug with select others 2

Articles 2a

Of mice and menus: Designing the user-friendly interface. Tekla S. Perry and John Voelcker, IEEE Spectrum, September 1989.2a1

Hyper Cargo. Stuart Greene, Apple Viewpoints, January 30, 1989.2a2

Who's who in the South Bay - A Salute to the Movers & Shakers & Doers; Notable figures in our own backyard. Laura M. Lukas, The Insider, June 11, 1988.2a3

Lifetime Achievement Award: Awards for Technical Excellence, PC Magazine, January 12, 1988.2a4

Silicon Valley searches for its soul. Howard Rheingold, San Francisco Magazine, January/February 1988.2a5

??Hypertext'87 Trip Report. Jakob Nielsen, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 19, April 1988, pp. 27-35.2a6

What's all the talk about hypertext, anyway? Paul Karon, PC Week, October 6, 1987.2a6

Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey. Jeff Conklin, IEEE:Computer, September, 1987.2a6

The 100 most powerful people in Silicon Valley/The desk set and its power plays. Michael S. Malone, San Jose Mercury/News West Magazine, June 7, 1987.2a7

Adult pioneers are `Boomtown' focus. David Rosenthal, San Jose Mercury News, January 14, 1987.2a8

Unpopular science. Brenton R. Schlender, The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 1986.2a9

Highway of knowledge is old road. Robert M. Gordon, Los Angeles Times: (Letters), August 24, 1986.2a9

Hypermedia, Jeffrey S. Young, Macworld, March 1986.2a10

The Macintosh family tree. Ted Nace, Macworld, November 1984.2a11

A modern mouse story. Vanessa Schnatmeier, A+ Magazine, Vol. 2 (July 1984).2a12

It's the year of the mouse! Tom Foth, Softalk, April 1984.2a13

The tale of the mouse. Paul Somerson, PC Magazine, February 1983.2a14

Video/TV 2b

"Silicon Valley Boomtown." 60-min. VHS video cassette recording produced by KTEH Channel 54 of San Jose, CA in 1987. 2b1

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Articles 3a

Hypervisions. David Bunnell, Macworld, March 1987.3a1

Innovations of '87, Peter H. Lewis, PC Magazine, November 2, 1987.3a2

Apple might learn a thing or two from I.B.M. Erik Sandberg-Diment, The New York Times, March 19, 1985.3a2

Executive support: A delicate balance. Eileen Feretic and Tim Moran, Today's Office, June 1984.3a3

Augmenting Human Intellect, A Life-Long Crusade, [author unknown], It's About Tym, June 1984.3a4

The Year of the Mouse, Philip Faflick, Time Magazine, January 31, 1983.3a5

Say Hello to the First Personal Computer Mouse, Tony Long, WIRED, 27, 1981.3a6

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Articles 4a

Learning tomorrow's multimedia in education. Kristina Hooper and SueAnn Ambron, The Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, Spring 1987.4a1

Hvem skal bestc mme Du og jeg eller IBM og Rank Xerox? Lars Olsen, Danish Computerworld, October 1984.4a2

Radio/TV interviews 4b

"Silicon Valley Boomtown," PBS Special on History of Silicon Valley, KTEH, 1987.4b1

Key Events This Decade 11a

Engelbart Launches Think Tank at Stanford May 1988
Doug Engelbart launches the Bootstrap Institute to convene a community of organizations interested in the future of teams, initiatives, and organizations, and the information technology enabling them.

See articles below for details.

Top Awards

Doug Engelbart is awarded the 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award for Technical Excellence by PC Magazine, citing "Engelbart's contribution to personal computing is almost inestimable."
See Engelbart Awards for details.