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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.
  
 -  
  
 - 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.
  
 -  
  
 - Coordinated
  Information Systems for a Discipline- or Mission-Oriented Community, 12
  December 1972
  
 - Engelbart describes the Knowledge Workshop and resource sharing through
  computer networks.
  
 -  
  
 - 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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