The 'Mother of All Demos' (1968)¶
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (1/3) (2017)¶
## 1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (1/3) from Doug Engelbart Institute on YouTube.
Description¶
Part 1 of 3: Doug Engelbart's presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968 titled "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect." Instead of talking about their NLS research prototype, Doug and his team astonished the audience by demonstrating it live. This was the debut of the mouse, interactive computing, hypermedia, groupware, computer supported software engineering, video teleconferencing, and much more. Filmed on 3 reels.
See also Doug's 1968 Demo page for more background, highlights, links, and the detailed paper published in this conference proceedings: https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
Producer: SRI International Curator: Stanford Libraries Special Collections
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (2/3) (2017)¶
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (2/3) from Doug Engelbart Institute on YouTube.
Description¶
Part 2 of 3: Doug Engelbart's presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968 titled "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect." Instead of talking about their NLS research prototype, Doug and his team astonished the audience by demonstrating it live. This was the debut of the mouse, interactive computing, hypermedia, groupware, computer supported software engineering, video teleconferencing, and much more. Filmed on 3 reels.
See also Doug's 1968 Demo page for more background, highlights, links, and the detailed paper published in this conference proceedings: https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
Producer: SRI International Curator: Stanford Libraries Special Collections Alt Host: Internet Archive
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (3/3) (2017)¶
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (3/3) from Doug Engelbart Institute on YouTube.
Description¶
Part 3 of 3: Doug Engelbart's presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968 titled "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect." Instead of talking about their NLS research prototype, Doug and his team astonished the audience by demonstrating it live. This was the debut of the mouse, interactive computing, hypermedia, groupware, computer supported software engineering, video teleconferencing, and much more. Filmed on 3 reels.
See also Doug's 1968 Demo page for more background, highlights, links, and the detailed paper published in this conference proceedings: https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
Producer: SRI International Curator: Stanford Libraries Special Collections Archived: Internet Archive
References¶
Intro
On December 9th, 1968 Doug Engelbart appeared on stage at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium to give his slated presentation, titled "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect." He and his team spent the next 90 minutes not only telling about their work, but demonstrating it live to a spellbound audience that filled the hall.
Instead of standing at a podium, Doug was seated at a custom designed console, where he drove the presentation through their NLS computer residing 30 miles away in his research lab at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), onto a large projection screen overhead, flipping seamlessly between his presentation outline and live demo of features, while members of his research lab video teleconferenced in from SRI in shared screen mode to demonstrate more of the system. Masterminding the whole production was lead engineer Bill English. As the session came to a close, the audience erupted into a standing ovation.
This seminal demonstration came to be known as "The Mother of All Demos."
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Part of a Larger Vision
Most of what Doug and his team presented in 1968 was developed literally "from scratch" by a handful of researchers in the space of roughly 2 years. The system, called NLS, was used day in and day out by the research team for almost every aspect of their work – they were living and breathing the organization of the future and the future of work as an advanced pilot expedition, pushing the envelope of intelligence augmentation and collective IQ with transformative practices and paradigms alongside the rapidly evolving technology, using a special evolutionary bootstrap approach (watch Doug describe the approach during the demo). He reasoned that organizations would have to get alot more effective at tackling wicked problems, especially as we moved into a future of accelerated change and disruption at a scale never before experienced by business or society (yes, he predicted this in 1960 and adapted his strategic vision accordingly). The demo was essentially a snapshot in time on a continuum of cross-cutting breakthrough innovation in which they were rigorously prototyping the fast, fluid organization of the future, while co-evolving the technology in the service of that. See Historic Firsts for more, as well as the Engelbart Academy for his prescient call to action.
- Doug's Great Demo: 1968 by The Douglas Engelbart Institute (2017)