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- Engelbart Papers: Annotated Table of
Contents
The items listed below are selections from the Engelbart Papers in Stanford
Special Collections regarded as seminal documentation of the development
of Doug Engelbart's ideas and the contributions of his research team at
Stanford Research Institute to the field of human computer interaction.
The papers are grouped around projects or in terms of meetings, contacts,
and exchanges that provided fruitful stimulation for the group. The Digital
Archive also contains many materials not included in the Engelbart papers
deposited in the Stanford University Special Collections.
1. Early Formulations of the Project
to Augment Human Intellect
- The
Augmented Human Intellect: Search for a Framework 13 December 1960
- Proposal to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for one-year
study to establish a conceptual framework within which could grow a coordinated
research and development program whose goals would be the following: (1)
to find the factors that limit the effectiveness of the human individual's
basic informationhandling capabilities in meeting the various needs of
society for problem solving in its most general sense; and (2) to develop
new techniques, procedures, or systems that will better match these basic
capabilities to the needs or problems of society.The proposal is for support
of research literature review and travel, done principally by one Senior
Research Engineer (Engelbart) and one Research Assistant. The funds would
support extended discussions with personnel in other disciplines, and for
several interdisciplinary seminars at SRI and Stanford University.
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- Augmented
Man and a Search for Perspective, 16 December 1960.
- Abstract for paper delievered at the Western Joint Computer Conference,
May 15, 1961. In this abstract Engelbart discusses the future importance
of closer working relationship between humans and computers and the direction
pursued by his SRI team to conceive this working relationship as a system
for mutually enhancing the capabilities of humans and successive generations
of intelligent machines.
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- Augmented
Human Intellect Study 12 June 1961
- Proposal to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for one-year
continued supporrt aimed at developing the conceptual framework for the
SRI Augmented Human Intellect Program by pursuing cycles of conjecture,
literature search, study, argument, model building, criticism, questioning
experts in different fields, etc., that characterize the work of the group
in its first year. It is proposed to continue seminar-type of activity.
The work of the group will center itself upon the growing collection of
models, concepts, hypotheses, empirical data, and the like, all linked
together meaningfully to form a "conceptual framework." This
framework is to encompass all aspects of the Individual Symbol Manipulation
System (a human and his augmentation means) that are relevant to its being
an effective solver of society's problems.
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- The
Current Picture of Program Development for "Augmenting Human Intelligence,"
28 June 1961
- Snapshot of "launching plan" consisting of research, development
and application activities aimed at implementing the "Individual Symbol
Manipulation System." Engelbart describes a research program involving
four basic "components": (1) the effort toward developing the
innovations in the individual's way of doing things that are expected to
make him more effective (we call this our Synthesis function); (2) the
effort toward developing measurement and analysis techniques by which we
can study and evaluate the human activity that we wish to make more effective
(our Analysis function); (3) the effort to develop testing facilities that
provide support for, and common grounds for interaction between, Synthesis
and Analysis (we are thinking of a computer and special testing laboratory);
and (4) the forward and outward looking efforts that provide scouting,
guiding, and coordination for the other effort (our search effort). An
important part of the Program from the outset were the experimental facilities
that allow testing the products of Synthesis-- i.e. to apply the techniques
developed by Analysis upon the innovations developed by Synthesis. Engelbart
describes plan to develop a simulation facility that would include a general-purpose
computer and special, real-time matching equipment. The goal was for test
subjects to be able to work in a physical environment that is meaningfully
controlled in a rather complete sense, including Artifacts that function
for him in the way prescribed by Synthesis.
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- Augmented
Human Intellect Program, 28 July 1961.
- Brief statement of the program to construct an "Individual Symbol
Manipulation System," incorporating four components; humans, their
language, technological artifacts, and methodology(H-LAM).
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- Program
in Human Effectiveness, December 1961
- Brief overview of the program with the aim of bringing significant
improvement to the real-life problem-solving effectiveness of individuals.
Includes short term and long range goals of the plan.
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- Augmented
Human Intellect Program, 1 March 1962
- Proposal for two-year funding support to continue work begun under
Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract. The proposal is based
on the notion that the stereotype of the computer as only a mathematical
instrument is too limiting--essentially, a computer can manipulate any
symbol in any describable way. Engelbart's aim is to give help in manipulating
any of the concepts that the individual usefully symbolizes in his work,
of which mathematical concepts constitute only a limited portion in most
real-life instances. The proposal describes a project to provide human
subjects with the best technological aids possible (which, in the initial
conception is represented by a work station having good cathode-ray-tube
displays, keysets, light-gun, and controls that are tied directly to a
large, general-purpose computer), and to re-design the subjects' way of
attacking intellectual problems so as to take advantage of the capabilities
provided in these aids. It is to be an empirical approach, guided by an
extensive conceptual model that has evolved from more than two years of
full-time thought and study, and representing a basic and systematic attack
from a carefully chosen initial position. To develop the applications Englebart
envisions a project team is required with a number of disciplinary backgrounds
represented among the researchers (system analysts, psychologists, programmers,
computer engineers, psycho-linguists, and industrial engineers).
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- Augmented
Human Intellect Study 8 October 1962
- Proposal to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for one-year
continued supporrt of the SRI Augmented Human Intellect Program aimed at
refining and developing in greater detail the initial conceptual framework
for augmenting the human intellect. It is proposed to select among a range
of experimental possibilities so that the initial framework can both be
influenced by and provide guidance to the experimental activity. The proposal
sets out alternative scenarios for acquiring and setting up experimental
facilities (display tubes, special keyboards, light guns, etc.) for carrying
out a range of fundamental experiments in man/machine communication. At
the lowest and minimum level of equipment complexity are five-key keysets
for performing initial experiments on binary signalling between man and
machine and on developing techniques for automating the teaching of psychomotor
skills.
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- Augmenting
Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework 2 October 1962
- This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic
approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual
human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the
system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods
that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that
shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed
for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods.
This report describes a study that was carried on at Stanford Research
Institute under the joint sponsorship of the Institute and the Directorate
of Information Sciences of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
[Contract AF 49(638)-1024].
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- Letter
to Vannevar Bush 24 May 1962
- Engelbart seeks permission to quote from Vannevar Bush's article, "As
We May Think," in The Atlantic Monthly, July, 1945 in his report
to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Engelbart mentions having
read Bush's article in 1945 and then having rediscovered it in 1959. He
speculates that Bush's article may have had an influence on the program
for human effectiveness he is developing at SRI. The letter included as
an enclosure a copy of the program for augmenting human intellect.
- 2. Progress Reports on Development
of Techniques for Augmenting Human Intellect
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- Study
for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques 12 May 1966
- Quarterly Technical Report for NASA contract. Discusses progress on
development of the NLTS (online text system), keyset, teleconferencing
display. Outlines early plans for a second generaton NLTS that would expand
hyperlinking to include graphical objects and "generalized data packets."
Lists visitors to the lab and demonstrations performed by the group.
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- Study
for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques 15 August
1966
- Quarterly Technical Report for NASA contract. Discusses progress on
development of the NLTS (online text system), including plans to implement
a means for storing arbitrary-data files, and for linking to them automatically
from the stuctured-text files, so that there can essentially be numerical
and graphical data embedded (and operated upon) within the text structure.
Discusses additions to NLS system, including level clipping, text truncating.
Experiments with control screen selection, including "bug" (mouse),
knee-control device, and nose-pointer. Lists visitors to the lab and demonstration
of the system to other groups at meetings.Outlines notion of a "bootstrapping
community" with plans of a proposal to ARPA and NASA for implementation
on a time-sharing system with many users. Discusses plans to introduce
"markers" that permit jumping within and between texts.
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- Study
for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques 16 November
1966
- Quarterly Technical Report for NASA contract. Discusses progress on
development of the NLTS (online text manipulation system), including implementation
of Statement Freezing, Indirect Referencing, or "Marking", Automatic
Renumbering, Disk-File, Semiautomatic Rewrite, quick level-truncation specification
(LTSPEC), and improvements in viewing parameters for jumping between texts.
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- Study
for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques 15 May 1967
- Quarterly Technical Report for NASA contract. Discusses progress on
design efforts for a multi-console NLS system, design of a multiconsole
workstation, programmng efforts on control metalanguage, and preparations
for "ARPA Computer-Network Information Center," as discussed
at the ARPA Contractor's meeting in Ann Arbor on 11 April 1967. Mention
is made of orders (20) for newly designed mouse. First steps toward implementing
NLS at Langley Research Center are described. List of visitors to the AHI
project and demonstrations of the system.
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- Study
for the Development of Human Intellect Augmentation Techniques 14 August
1967
- Quarterly Technical Report for NASA contract. Discusses heavy concentration
on implementing the multiconsole system, preparations for transitioning
to using the system as the basis for a time-shared netowrked information
center for the ARPA computer network. List of twenty-five groups of visitors
to AHI project.
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- Augmenting
Human Intellect Project Graph of Project Funds 1 July 1968
- Rough draft of graph depicting monthly expenditure of funds on Augment
Project with listing of project milestones. The graph was prparatory for
the final report on the Augment project to SRI. This is a large file
(250K).
3. Making Humans More Effective at Their
Professional Problem-Solving through "Bootstrapping"
- Proposal
for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness. 24 August 1961
- Proposes multi-disciplinary program to explore possibilities for making
humans more effective at their professional problem-solving tasks. These
possibilities stem principally from the emergence of the digital computer
and its associated technology, assuming that there is a great deal of potential
power to be developed in really close cooperation between man and machine,
with the goal to develop in a few years means for making significant improvements
in the human performance of certain practical intellectual tasks. A plan
is outlined for establishing part of the support for this program in the
form of a group-support arrangement, in which many different parties could
participate in supporting the program in a manner designed to be advantageous
to all. The program proposed encorporates an "engineering" approach
to a system problem, where the "system" is a human problem solver
(typically, over-extended). A multi-disciplinary approach is proposed due
to the sweeping "system changes" contemplated. A number of different
disciplines would be involved with a goal of producing improvement in the
practical capability of humans in practical roles. This multi-disciplinary
activity is to be coordinated within one program structure with persons
from different backgrounds having close association with one another in
a common environment of study and development. The program envisioned would
involve its own workers in extending the real-time human utilization of
tools evolved by the program's own technology--particularly computers and
other informationhandling devices. The laboratory facilities for a concerted
program would be sophisticated, and most of the workers within the program
must be involved with them. Deciding that such a program is worth pursuing
seriously thus leads to a picture of a fairly large, well-coordinated activity,
essentially "housed under one roof."
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- Proposal
for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness 22 August1961
- Draft of proposal for Program on Human Effectiveness
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- Proposal
for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness 25 August1961
- Final version of Proposal for Program on Human Effectiveness. Engelbart
elaborates on the methodology behind "bootstrapping" and discusses
a functional model of a trained human, with his Language, Artifacts and
Methodology, as the problem-solving system whose effectiveness the program
is aimed to improve. The proposal elaborates the centrality of the digital
computer as a symbol-manipulating tool to enable the program, and Engelbart
outlines a vision for a what he calls a personal "work station."
The work station would initially have a standard typewriter keyboard and
a cathode-ray-tube display system with high-speed capability for arraying
something near full-page presentations of alphabetic, numeric, and special
symbols, as well as line drawings, graphs, curves. The system would also
be linked to a typewriter, or other hard-copy, printout facility. The workstation
Engebart describes would have near to real time responsiveness and also
be part of a time-share system.
4. Automated Techniques for Teaching
"Mental Skills"
- Possibilities
for Teaching Machine Activity at SRI18 May 1960
- Engelbart sets out a "vision statement" for a program he
hopes to convince Stanford Research Institute to pursue, aimed at developing
techniques such that an intelligent person and a powerful computer can
work directly together as an extremely capable team in the domain of normal
professional experience. Engelbart urges that facilities and techniques
be developed at SRI for more direct and more extensive utilization of computers
in experimental research, particularly in the social sciences. He argues
that realtime monitoring, evaluating, and complexly programmed controlling
of experiments involving physiological, psychological, intellectual, and/or
sociological dynamics of animals or humans could be made available to many
different types of research by a common core of computer and terminal equipment.
These two program hopes overlap in the area of research on learning theory
and teaching machines. Engelbart urges that SRI become engaged in this
latter activity, and that it could be pursued in conjunction with general
socialscience computeraided experimentation, as well as with an "intelligent
team" research program.
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- A
Possible Research Activity toward a Technique for Teaching Coordinate Physical
Skills.23 September 1960
- Engelbart proposes building on the current widespread interest in teaching
machines to initiate research and application of automated techniques for
teaching people what might be termed "mental skills" (or often
called "verbal skills"). Engelbart proposes adapting methods
for teaching of mental skills to automating the teaching of physical skills
by automating the presentation of information in verbal or pictorial form
(or some audible or visual form), and b, various automatic detectors of
gross action. Some very interesting possibilities exist for automating
the teaching of physical skills, also. Work toward some aspects of this
has been going on with simulators, mockup procedural trainers, and most
likely other techniques. Engelbart proposes possible techniques for coordinate
physical skill training which he has been contemplating for some twelve
years. The basic principle Engelbart advocates is using physical-stimulus
cues for prompting desired physical responses instead of audio or visual
cues, which generally have to be given more higher-center processing in
the brain before they result in the desired physical response than do the
direct physicalstimulus cues. In the end, these cue-interpretation-response
reactions are going to be supplanted by the prime stimulusinterpretation-response
reaction, and the simpler and more direct we can make the intermediate
temporary-skill cue interpretation the more efficient the whole learning
process would seem to be.
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- Automated
Psycho-Motor Skill Training.13 December1961
- Proposal to develop equipment and techniques for providing preprogrammed
tactile stimuli for subjects learning psychomotor skills. These stimuli
would be provided in such a way that the subject is guided through the
coordinated sequences of primitive actions that compose the desired skill
actions with the objective of increasing speed and effectiveness of training.
Means are also proposed to monitor a subject's performance, and to make
decisions (both automatic and with human-coach interaction) which alter
the guiding stimuli in ways that adjust to the subject's performance changes
during the learning process. These techniques would be applied to evaluation
of simple keyboard-operation training tasks. Depending on the success of
these techniques, a specially designed research facility for automated
psychomotor skill training is recommended. This facility would provide
means not only for basic research into skilltraining questions and possibilities,
but also for practical developments of automated training techniques for
particular reallife skills.
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- Introducing
Our Thinkpiece on Man-Machine Communication Means and Automatic Physical
Skill Training 22 March 1961
- Abstract outlining project objectives and costs for developing new
communication means that allow a human to control or make use of machines
(especially information-handling machines) with minimal inference in other
physical activities associated with his primary tasks. Engelbart's group
has specific suggestions for hardware and techniques to start off our pursuit.
These should provide a reasonably universal means for humans to communicate
(both ways) with machines in a manner compatible with the postures and
movements normally associated with such as office, laboratory, conference-room,
field-reconnaissance, or vehicle-control activities. The same principles
that can be applied for the automation of symbol-skill teaching can be
applied similarly to physical-skill training, promising a cheaper, quicker
training period, that may allow development of higher levels of physical
skill than are now feasible to consider.
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- Roughform
Thinkpiece Regarding Research Possibilities at SRI in Areas of Man-Machine
Communication Means, and Automated Psycho-Motor Skill Training 3 March
1961
- In line with an overall SRI program to (1) develop immediate byproduct
techniques directly useful to industry and military and (2) provide the
sort of techniques, facilities, and experience at SRI that are very nicely
geared to the longer-range needs of the program ("Augmented Human
Intellect Study" submitted to AFOSR on 13 December 1960, resulting
contract begun 1 March 1961), the work undertaken by Engelbart's group
on the development of special keysets for more useful man-to-machine information
transfer, as well as development of compatible machine-to-man signal-transfer
channels can be coordinated with work on the development of special techniques
for automating the teaching of psycho-motor skills. This results from the
fact that it is necessary to evaluate the "learnability" of the
psycho-motor skills needed to utilize these new communication channels,
and also because they seem to be very good kinds of skills with which to
do the early experimenting on the automated teaching techniques. Engelbart
goes on to elaborate upon the plan to develop a 5-key binary keyset. In
general the plan is to develop equipment and techniques for providing pre-programmed
tactile stimulii for subjects learning psycho-motor skills. These stimuli
would be provided in such a way that the subject is guided through the
coordinated sequences of primitive actions that comprise the desired skill
actions -- with the objective of increasing speed and effectiveness of
training.
5. Changing the Ways Individuals Handle
and Use Information
- Facets
of the Technical Information Problem, SRI Journal, 1958
- Paper written by Charles Bourne and Doug Engelbart highlighting the
issues involved in organizing the mass of technical, scientific information
available. Includes a proposal developed by SRI for a National Technical
Information Service.
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- Special
Considerations of the Individual as a User, Generator, and Retriever of
- Information"
American Documentation, April, 1961, pp. 121-125.
In this paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Documentation
Institute, Berkeley, California, October 23-27, 1960, Engelbart draws a
distinction between macro-documentation systems, which he associates with
the systems built by the discipline of information retreival based on automatic-information-handling
technology, and micro-documentation systems designed to assist the problem-oriented
individual who marshals the arguments, generates the hypotheses, provides
the drive, upon which each forward step in the creation of new knowledge
is dependent. By "documentation for the individual." Engelbart
intends more that what is associated merely with his keeping a bibliographic
reference file such that he can track down any article he ever read. Observing
that the individual usually works with much smaller packets of information
than is represented by the average paper or document, and that in shaping
his ideas, the user "canabalizes" documents an information retrieval
system might provide, Engelbart argues that real working information user
must have some way to store and order these small packets in some external
medium, preferably a medium that can provide him with spatial patterns
to associate with the ordering, e.g., an ordered list of possible courses
of action. Beyond a certain number and complexity of interrelationships,
he cannot depend upon spatial-pattern help alone and seeks other more abstract
associations and linkages. A way to store, retrieve, and manipulate the
information within our individual's private domain, with informationpacket
sizes that match his actual needs (i.e., separate concepts, facts, considerations,
etc.), could go far toward increasing the effectiveness of his mental capabilities
to the level needed for the extended and complex problems that are the
pressing ones of our day.
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- The
Individual's Information Handling, 26 July 1960
- Memo in which Engelbart outlines his plan for presenting his ideas
at the American Documentation Institute in Berkeley in October, 1960. The
paper fits with a panel on the special needs and aspects of storage and
retrieval for the individual. Engelbart sees this as a good chance to bring
up these notions before this body of people, and the audience is sure to
include potential sponsors with whom "a little seed sowing should
be a good thing...assuming the seed stock is good."
6. Early Reflections on Problems of
Scaling and Realization of Digital Logics
- Microelectronics
and the Art of Similitude 7 March 1959
- Abstract of a planned paper on implications changed relationships and
problems of scaling as traditional "scaling up" from model to
prototype typical of engineering practice is reversed to "scaling
down" in the microdomain. The relationships between physical phenomena
which the component researcher is used to depending upon will change, and
much of his valuable intuition and judgement gained by work on "normal-sized"
components will not be applicable, when he begins working with radically
different size scales. The purpose of this paper is to call to attention
to the long-established art of similitude, and show how it can help bridge
the gap between past experience and new problems. The paper is intended
to deliver a message to those people who are trying to get oriented in
the device possibilities which may arise from new microminiature materials-handling
techniques. The message is that they should look to the art of similitude
for help in orienting themselves, in evaluating new-device possibilities,
or for conducting research on new devices. Application of similitude can
yield a transformation schedule for changing all of the common electronic
parameters, corresponding to a given change in the length parameters, to
yield a scale model of a given electronic device which can be expected
to perform in a manner exactly similar to that of the original model. Using
this transformation to map the prospective microminiature design up to
"normal" size can allow us immediately to apply our intuition
and judgement to an analysis and evaluation of the design.
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- A
Study in Dimensional Scaling as Applied to Electronic Device Microminaturization
3 April 1959
- Engelbart contemplates a study directed toward microminiaturizing electronic
devices. He notes that judgement and intuition obtained from experience
with "normal-sized" devices are not directly applicable to the
scaled-down models. It now becomes useful to apply similtude to a situation
which is reversed from previous engineering applications - we want to know
how to predict behaviour of the small model from that observed with the
large model. Engelbart speculates that "... the physical realization
of logic is essentially the same thing ... i.e., looking for a physical
analogue to the logic equations, with preference for small size, low power,
high speed, reliability, and low cost ... etc..."
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- Shrinking
the Giant Brains for the Space Age, 30 June 1959
- Paper by Jack Stalker at the Third Annual Convention on Military Electronics,
discusses the drive toward miniturization of computer components for military
applications. Engelbart was deeply stimulated by the broader implications
of this paper and was himself thinking along similar lines.
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- Research
on the Philosophy of Logic Realization 30 October 1959
- Quarterly progress report for Air Force Office of Scientific Research
contract for a study of the electronics literature to determine the different
schemes that have been employed for realizing general logic functions in
a computer. The objective of this project is to provide organization and
stimulation in the search for new and better ways to obtain digital manipulation
of information. Project work was mainly directed toward inspection of existing
logical schemes to begin the process of fitting each to a descriptive and
functional mode of analysis. Among the highlights of the project was the
setting up of document database filing and retrieval system for scrutinizing
the complete engineering description of a scheme, cross-linking to different
schemes, and background information.
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- Research
on the Philosophy of Logic Realization 7 March 1960
- Quarterly progress report for Air Force Office of Scientific Research
contract to undertake a study of the electronics literature to determine
the different schemes that have been employed for realizing general logic
functions in a computer, incorporating various components, such as electromechanical,
semiconductor, all-magnetic, solid state, transistor, vacuum tube, etc.
The survey turned up a bibliography of 19,261 references. An additional
100,150 background references were generated. It was hoped that this survey
would uncover many forgotten fragments of schemes (usually a phenomenon
possessing two stable states) which would significantly aid in setting
up a general model for digital logic blocks by induction. Of the schemes
proposed as logic realizations, very few ideas not already known by one
or more of the senior project staff were encountered.The majority of the
references were from the Proceedings of the Eastern and Western Joint Computer
Conferences, the IRE Proceedings and Computer Transactions, and project
reports from ASTIA,with the lastnamed being the source for roughly half
the file.
7. SRI Computer Techniques Laboratory
- Minutes
of a Seminar Meeting of the Augmentation Research Center team 23 March
1961
- The purpose of this regular seminar meeting was to discuss types of
equipment and procedures to be adopted by the group for using that equipment
to study reaction expression. The goal of these considerations was to design
methods for improving the effectiveness of their group meetings
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- Memorandum
on Vote Interrupt Equipment 4 May 1961
- Engelbart's memorandum of record concerning the design and use of vote
interrup equipment as a means of improving the effectiveness of group meetings.
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- List
of projects in the Lab 10 July 1961
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- Display-Selection
Techniques for Text Manipulation March 1967
- This paper describes an experimental study into the relative merits
of different CRT display-selection devices as used within a real-time,
computer-display, text-manipulation system in use at Stanford Research
Institute.
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- Images
of First Mouse and U.S.
Patent on the Computer Mouse 21 June 1967
- Doug Engelbart's patent, filed June 21, 1967, disclosed an X-Y position
indicator control for movement by the hand over any surface to move a cursor
over the display on a cathode ray tube, the indicator control generating
signals indicating its position to cause a cursor to be displayed on the
tube at the corresponding position. The indicator control mechanism contains
X and Y position wheels mounted perpendicular to each other, which rotate
according to the X and Y movements of the mechanism, and which operate
rheostats to send signals along a wire to a computer which controls the
CRT display.
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FINAL REPORT July 1968 *
- Chapter I of this report is a general introduction to the activities
of the AHI Research Center at Stanford Research Institute and to the facilities
in use for the research. Chapter II describes the strategy of research
and the experimental environment in the Center, entailing a "bootstrapping"
concept and complex systems for on-line, interactive computer aid to intellect
on a daily, full-time basis. Chapter III describes the development of
user systems -- the aspects of the computer systems that are apparent and
useful to the user; Chapter IV deals with special system-design techniques
which have evolved in the implementation of user systems. Chapter V is
a discussion of the results that have been observed from intensive usage
of the systems, in terms of possibilities for human intellect augmentation.
Chapter VI presents conclusions and recommendations.
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- 8. Conferences and Symposia
- A representative sample of conferences from the 1960s organized or
attended by members of the group:
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- Symposium
on Text Manipulation 13 April 1964
- Organized by Engelbart's Augmentation Research Centre at SRI to present
their work on the online text editing system (NLS)
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- ACM
Professional Development Seminar on Computer Graphics 27 October 1967
Spring
Joint Computer Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 18-20 April , 1967
IEEE
Symposium on Human Factors in Electronics, Palo Alto, California, 3-5 May
1967
FJCC Demo
of Augment Research Center, San Francisco, California, 9 December 1968
9. Protocols from Meetings
- ARPA
Contractors Meeting 7-8 April 1966
- Invitation to attend ARPA two-day meeting of graphics contractors at
MIT Lincoln Laboratories organized by Iv Sutherland, Director of the ARPA
Informaton Processing Techniques Office. Included with the invitation is
a distribution list of recipients of the invitaion and lists of the attendees
at each day of the meeting. A hand-written list of names in Engelbarts
hand is also attached.
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- ARPA
Contractors Meeting 9-11 April 1967
- Invitation from Robert Taylor, Director of the ARPA Information Processing
Techniques Office, to attend three-day meeting of ARPA contractors at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on April 9-11, 1967. Included is a schedule
and program for the meeting.
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- ARPA
Contractors Meeting 9-10 October 1967
- Engelbarts's minutes of a meeting of ARPA contractors organized by
Larry Roberts of ARPA, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., on October 9
and 10, 1967, attended by interested ARPA contractors to discuss the construction
of an ARPA computer network. The major topics covered in the meetings were:
communication facilities, routing procedures, network protocols, interface
message processor (IMP) specifications, IMP to host computer interface,
control of access to the network.
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- AFIPS
Conference Proceedings of the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, San
Francisco, CA, December 1968, Vol. 33, pp. 395-410 (AUGMENT, 3954).
- Engelbart and English's paper presenting the work of the research center
and the introduction of the interactive, multi-console computer-display
system and the first presentation of the mouse.
10. Post-1968 Developments of the Augmenting
Human Intellect Project
- Intellectual
Implications of Multi-Access Computer Networks, 1970
- Engelbart's description of the Augmention System through the use of
advanced application of interactive computers and multi-access computer
networks requiring concurrent development of complex and sophisticated
systems of conventions, methods, skills, and organizational forms.
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- Coordinated
Information Systems for a Discipline- or Mission-Oriented Community, 12
December 1972
- Engelbart describes the Knowledge Workshop and resource sharing through
computer networks.
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- NLS
TELECONFERENCING FEATURES: The Journal, and Shared-Screen Telephoning,
29 July 1975
- Computer-aided teleconferencing as part of NLS and how these computer
networks facilitate human collaboration.
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