He was awarded a contract to study pointing devices or display workstations. ELABORATE

Not a memo ELABORATE

Common myth that encountering this article led to his driving vision - this is not the case. See how he recounts his epiphany, and how he was influenced by the article. xxLINKxx

Not a station, they were docked at Leyte waiting to be stationed in Manila Bay

Program on Human Effectiveness, DCE, 12-Dec-1961 This version omits the Cost paragraph

• Scan Copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1muaDKwk18scpBg8IlixDF8lgvYp8mflj/view?usp=sharing
• PDF Transcript: (date incorrect) https://archive.org/details/1962-program-on-human-effectiveness
• MouseSite Browseable: https://web.archive.org/web/20110730054734/http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Archive/Post68/PrHumanEffectiveness.html

Includes:

Program on Human Effectiveness, DCE, 12-Dec-1961 This version includes the Cost paragraph * Scan Copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQoBzpfCaM2XR0z4nPOYqkziWANnID0_/view?usp=sharing * PDF Transcript: https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/white-papers/1961-Program-On-Human-Effectiveness.pdf * DEI Browseable: https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-133401.html

Collection ID Number - Top of Page

This quote by Doug Engelbart was selected for the IBM THINK Poster 2015 http://bit.ly/1DHBLYI. For more on the IBM THINK Exhibit see http://bit.ly/1oZu1RN.

The quote is from Engelbart's paper "Improving our Ability to Improve" http://bit.ly/1po1K7p which he presented at the World Library Summit in Singapore in 2002.

CONTENT HAS MOVED:

New URL http://www.islandone.org/Foresight/Updates/Update29/Update29.2.html

Document scanned https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/EngelbartPapers/B6_F5_AFOSR.html

Document scanned https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/EngelbartPapers/B6_F1_AugmProp2.html

Document scanned https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/EngelbartPapers/B6_F1_AugmProp2.html

Starting Here: http://dougengelbart.org/pubs/Augmenting-Human-Intellect.html#3b

Starting Here: http://dougengelbart.org/pubs/Augmenting-Human-Intellect.html#2

Starting Here: http://dougengelbart.org/pubs/Augmenting-Human-Intellect.html

Hi I'm Christina Engelbart - I worked with my father for many years as Associate Director of the Doug Engelbart Institute. I studied his work in backwards, i.e. I jumped in 1989 helping him refine his message and organize management seminars about his strategy for the future, and only years later did I ever sit down to read this 1962 document. Wow - the opening paragraphs are still so prescient, concise, and compelling! I'm looking forward to collaborating with all on this project!

Copy of 13041 is hosted as pdf at https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/766005.pdf

operating systems. [note Ken Harrenstien wrote a TOPS-20 emulator to run on modern servers; Augment runs on that!]

, for advancing our individual and collective thinking quickly toward our goal.

administrative

Suggest adding a callout quote

"I found myself stumbling over my own thoughts. My mind outpaced the machine."

in his lab

--

was

help write and

, studying, or exploring

• Incorporate input, feedback, commentary

Doug Engelbart chaired a session at the conference - this folder has the correspondence for arranging, and a letter from DCE to Lick

Photographed in full - a multi-page list and a brochure - to be posted and linked here

This is a thick folder of contents from a binder with binder dividers retained: ATTENDANCE | MEMOS | RECORDER NOTES | NOTES | MAG PROG This is an excellent picture into his thinking in late 1960 and at the same time picture of him initiating his first bootstrapping activity with his peers as apparently willing participants!

Re: Patents filed by Bill English and others related to other CS projects?

First item is Steve Paavola's FJCC Expense form; all the rest are re: Patents filed by E. van de Reit, Bill English, and David Bennion related to other CS projects?

Employee # 3290 | Organization: # 710 | Projects: same as above | Trvl Expense FJCC 1968 - up for the day Fri+Sat with team to prepare; up Sun-Tue in room for use of AHI staff preparing and conducting technical session; on 11/16/68 drove to Grass Valley to pick up electronic parts

Employee # 10110 | Organization: # 710 | Parttime 30hrs/wk beg 6/8/68 | Fulltime beg. 6/8/68 | Trvl expenses FJCC 1968 Tue-Wed 8am-9pm $0.10/mile plus Expense for lunch in honor of Dr. Glaser, MIT with JFR, SHP (Paavola), and WHP (Paxton)

Employee # 8471 | Organization: # 710 | Projects: same as above | Trvl Expense FJCC 1968 inc. meal Wed 12/12 with Prof. Van Dam of Brown Univ. and meal Fri 12/13 with Dr. Wilkes

Employee # 5118 | Organization: # 611<= was she in Doug's group? |

Employee # 10250 | Organization: # 710

Correction: N. Dean Meyer | Employee # 10613 | Organization: # 710

Employee # 10639 | Organization: # 710

Employee # 3156 | Organization: # 710 (beg.w.8/3/68), prev # 743 | Time spent on projects # 5919, 5890, 6631 (5-10hrs/wk beg 6/67), 7016 (beg 1/68), 7079 (beg 3/68), 7071 (beg 3/68), 743-551 (beg 4/68), 710-XXX (beg 9/68) | for Trvl see Folder 7-7

Employee # 7870 | Organization: # 710 (beg.w.8/3/68), prev # 743

Employee # 7000 | Organization: # 710 (beg.w.8/3/68), prev # 743 and 813 before that | Time spent on projects # ...

Correction: David A. Evans | Employee # 8543 | Organization: # 710 | Time spent on projects # | Fullbright Travel Grant extend thru August 1969 | Resume attached to front flap

Correction: W.K. English | Employee # 3537 | Organization: # 710 | Time spent on projects # 5919, 5890, 7016 (beg 1/68), 7079 (beg 3/68), 7071 (beg 3/68), 743-551 (beg 4/68), 710-XXX (beg 9/68) |

Employee # 8412 | Organization: # 710 | Time spent on projects # 7079, 7071, 5919, 5890 | Trvl to FJCC 1968, and FJCC 1967, and to DC for editing Defense conf proceedings

Employee # 9024 | Organization: # 710 | Time spent on projects # 7079, 7071, 6631, 6016, 5919, 5890, 710542, 710551, 543541 (school) | Trvl to Irbana to speak at conference on Pertinent Concepts in Computer Graphics, also FJCC 1968 or 1969

Employee # 10130 | Organization # 710 | Time spent on projects # 7079, 7101, 7016 (infrequently) | Trvl to FJCC 1968

Correction: J.R. Baughman | Employee # 1035 | Organization # 710 | Time spent on projects # 7079, 7101

One folder per employee -- clipped onto inside flap are their travel records for that period; the time sheets only show hours by project #, and Holiday or sick time etc.

Photographed forms itemizing DCE's trips for a given month - to be posted and linked to

Photographed assorted letters and memos from this file - to be posted and linked to soon

Available Online: THINK PIECE - Possible Intellect- Augmentation Research (11-Nov-1965) ARNAS

Available Online: Roman Monthly Letter Report No.15

Mislabelled - this file contains TWO UNRELATED ITEMS: 1) - "Games that Teach Fundamentals (1961)" article published in IRE 2) - Block Diagram of a Serial-Binary Adder System

1.2 TWO UNRELATED ITEMS: 1) - "Games that Teach Fundamentals (1961)". It contains reprint of Doug's 1961 article “Games That Teach the Fundamentals of Computer Operation” published in IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, 1961, p.31-41 (made avail online at Internet Archive). For context see Christina Engelbart's blog about her father's games at How Doug Engelbart taught students about how computers think

2) - DCE 26 Feb, 1964 "BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A SERIAL-BINARY ADDER SYSTEM"

Quote by Doug Engelbart at his 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize award ceremony, as reported here by Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute.

39-45. Augmented Knowledge Workshop (1973)

Series 7. Accession 2007-269

Series 6. Accession 2007-197

Series 4. Hardware

Series 3. Media

Series 2. Accession 1998-094

This subcollection is divided into subsections as follows

Series 1. Accession 1986-030

Series 3. Media

Box 3, object 1-3: In other words, it's the 1968 demo (aka "Mother of All Demos") on VHS format 90 min. in three parts (hence 3 VHS tapes). See DEI's 1968 Demo portal to watch and learn more.

Accession # for this Subseries is Accession 1988-013

Series 5. Accession 1999-191

Subseries 5.3. ARC Feedback Journals

Boxes 48-51: User feedback was actively engaged. The online user support function, manned by non-technical staff on rotating basis. This role was nicknamed FEED. Issues or questions were posted to the Feedback Journal, the Journal catalog utility would assign a permalink ID, and link all replies and commentary to that ID.

CORRECTION.

The Accession number is 1999-191

Itemized Listing:

Seminar/Workshop Tapes (1992-1998)

Presented by Jim Clark at Tymshare, on behalf of Xerox

All the papers are online, see Bibliography

108-06. Knowledge Workshop Development (1976) <- check to see if this is it

Subseries 5.1. ARC Journals 1971-1977

Boxes 18-47: These are listings from the ARC Journals - where all thinkpieces and documents posted to the ARC's Journal server 1971-1977 were cataloged and assigned permalink Journal Numbers. The complete printouts of all postings were stored in distinctive red binders.

Subseries 3.5 Miscellaneous film & video

These are old 35mm films of demos produced in the ARC lab. The Eidophon reel is of particular historical signifcance, all should be digitized if at all possible!

Box 10: these are digitized

• Doug at MITRE (2005)
• Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution (1998) - see event website
• New Paradigms for Using Computers (1995)

Subseries 3.6 These videos are available online:

• Bootstrap Seminar (1992)
• Vannevar Bush Symposium (1995)
• Unfinished Revolution (1998)

Box 1, object 4-7: This box contains original film from Doug's 1969 demo presented one year after the 1968 Demo. See DEI's Videography to view this demo.

Series 2. Accession 1998-094 (cont)

Alphabetical Files 1962-1991

Accession 1998-094 Box 1A Doug Engelbart Lab Notebooks (1958-1986) - his hand-written lab journals and pocket notebooks where he captured his thoughts

• Lab Notebook (1959-1963) 60 pages - begins on Day 1 of his AHI Study thru research startup phase - these were scanned in one jpg file per page, if you can consolidate into single pdf and send to info@dougengelbart.org much appreciated!

17-07. Assorted papers including:

• Memo: Individual's Information Handling, from DCE (Jul 1960) - his plan for the next few months toward developing a plan for "seeking to improve the intellectual capability of humans" includes (1) offering a seminar at Stanford this fall, (2) delivering paper on 'special considerations of storage and retrieval for the idividual' at upcoming conference of the American Documentation Inst in Berkeley

(JFR) Memos and design documentation by Jeff Rulifson

15-09. Introducing our Thinkpiece on Man-Machine Communication means and automatic physical-skill training, by DCE (Mar 1961) this two-pager serves to introduce "the attached sixteen-page thinkpiece"... Q: Is the Attached included in this folder?

46-05. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (Oct 1962) REPORT. Also avail on DEI as navigable/linkable version: Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (Oct 1962)

15-07. Text Manipulation Symposium (Apr 1964)

15-06. Rough-Form Think Piece regarding research possibilities at SRI in areas of Man-Machine Communication Means, and automated Psycho-Moter skill training, by DCE (Mar 1961)

15-05. A possible research activity toward a technique for teaching coordinate physical skills, by DCE (Sep 1960)

15-04. Possibilities for Teaching Machine Activity at SRI, by DCE (May 1960)

ALERT Box 14 Folders 1-29 are MISSING from this Finding Aid. Refer to MouseSite: Finding Aid for Box 14.

Of particular interest:

• ARPA/IPT Contractor's Mtg Agenda and cover ltr from Bob Taylor to be held in Ann Arbor, Mi (Apr 1967) - this was essentially the ARPANET kickoff meeting in which Bob Taylor told his PIs he would be networking their computers, and they would be cooperating. He describes this in his Oral History at CHM.

ALERT Box 13 Folders 1-25 are MISSING from this Finding Aid. Refer to MouseSite: Finding Aid for Box 13.

10-39. Microelectronics, And The Art Of Similitude, by DCE (Oct 1959)

10-03. Available Online:

• Shrinking the Giant Brains for the Space Age, by Jack C. Staller (Jun 1959)
• Scaling (Apr 26) - Engelbart's handwritten notes
• A Study in Dimensional Scaling as applied to Electronic-Device Microminiaturization, by DCE (Apr 1959) - ABSTRACT

10-31. Project 2821: Research on the Philosophy of Logic Realization"

• Quarterly Progress Report 2 (Jul-Oct 1959) by DCE
• Quarterly Progress Letter Report 3 (Oct-Feb 1960) by DCE

6-15. Very thick folder of individual letters and memos.

• Includes Engelbart's Travel Expense Reports detailing where he travelled and why; also internal communications with his team re: design next steps etc.

The following have been scanned (currently in one pdf):

• Dr. Harold Wooster - Nov 29, 1963
• DCE to Robert Y. Wing - Dec 18, 1963 (progress rpt)
• DCE Memo: Records, Skill and Our Research Planning - 25 Nov 63

The first page of these items have been photographed

• [list items here]

• ...

6-05. AFOSR Program on Information Complexes - BROCHURE from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, plus "Long Range Research in the Information Sciences," an ABSTRACT by Dr. Harold Wooster, AFOSR Directorate of Mathematical Sciences

6-02. Augmented Human Intellect Study (Dec 1960) - Research Proposal - Extension of Contract AF 49(638)-1024 for Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Project Title: The Augmented Human Intellect: Search for a Framework

5-09. A New Magnetic Logic System Using Simple Cores (Feb 1959). Folder also includes earlier reprint of same article dated Dec 1958 (REQUEST THIS)

4-13. Augmented Human Intellect Program (Jul 1961) - DRAFT - superseded Mar 1962 in 6-01 below.

5-01. Augmented Human Intellect Program (Mar 1962) - duplicate in 5-01 above.

5-01. Augmented Human Intellect Program (Mar 1962) - duplicate in 6-01 below.

6-01. Augmented Human Intellect Study (Jun 1961) - DRAFT - superseded Oct 1962 - see 5-07 above.

5-18. REQUEST THIS "A Conceptual Framework For The Problem of Augmenting Man's Intellect" (2 Oct 1962)

6-17. Memo: Program at SRI on "Individual Information-Handling Problems" (Jan 1961) 12 pages

5-16. Memo: The Current Picture of Program Development for "Augmenting Human Intelligence" (Jun 1961)

5-15. Augmented Man, And A Search For Perspective (Jun 1961)

5-06. Microelectronics, And The Art Of Similitude (1959). ABSTRACT. Engelbart presents results of his study dimensional scaling in electronics, which he undertook to satisfy himself that miniaturization of digital technology would be inevitable, and therefore become increasingly affordable and pervasive. Roger Moore attended Doug's talk in 1960, and published Moore's Law in 1965.

5-14. A Project-promotion Possibility: Research on Information Storage and Retrieval (Nov 1959)

5-13. Vote-Interrupt Equipment (1961)

5-11. Seminar Minutes (1961)

5-10. List of People Attending Thursday Seminars (circa 1961). These "Seminars" were Doug's earliest efforts in customer-centered design, enlisting colleagues in SRI's Computer Techniques Dept in his iterative concept development efforts.

5-07. This folder also contains 2 copies of Program on Human Effectiveness printed on SRI Masthead with a 4-page brochure attached detailing the hardware acquisition.

5-07. Augmented Human Intellect Study (Oct 8, 1962) - Research Proposal

5-04. Correspondence American Documentation Institute Papers (1960-1961)

1-20. SRI memos re: various ARPA Computer Networking meetings (1967)

1-19. Includes: Lee Friedman book proposal: Human Factors in Compter System Design and Note on Lee Friedman visit to SRI

1-01. This is the Oral History taken at Stanford as part of the History of Silicon Valley project. You can browse the complete transcripts at Stanford University Oral History: Doug Engelbart

1-02. Games That Teach the Fundamentals of Computer Operation. For context see Christina Engelbart's blog about her father's games at How Doug Engelbart taught students about how computers think

2-05. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.1 (May 1966)

2-06. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.2 (Aug 1966)

2-07. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.3 (Nov 1966)

2-08. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.4 (May 1967)

2-09. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.5 (May-Aug 1967)

2-10. ARNAS Quarterly Report No.6 (Aug-Nov 1967)

3-11. Active Projects of the SRI Computer Techniques Laboratory (July 1961) - itemizes projects by group, PI, project name, $funded, etc. - includes funding for Engelbart, Crane, Rosen, Bennion, Goldberg, Kautz, Nitzan, ...

4-07. Program on Human Effectiveness [Dec. 1961]

4-09. Automated Psycho-Motor Skill Training (13-Dec-61)

4-10. Proposal for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness (Aug 1961)

4-11. Proposal for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness (Aug 1961) DRAFT

4-12. Proposal for Participation in the Program on Human Effectiveness (Aug 1961) FINAL DRAFT

6-15. Very thick folder of individual letters and memos.

• Includes Engelbart's Travel Expense Reports detailing where he travelled and why; also internal communications with his team re: design next steps etc.

The following have been scanned (currently in one pdf):

• Dr. Harold Wooster - Nov 29, 1963
• DCE to Robert Y. Wing - Dec 18, 1963 (progress rpt)
• DCE Memo: Records, Skill and Our Research Planning - 25 Nov 63

The first page of these items have been photographed

• [list items here]

• ...

5.18. REQUEST THIS ITEM. This links to the REPORT Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. The title of this folder's contents is a different document.

5-06. Microelectronics, And The Art Of Similitude (1959). ABSTRACT. Engelbart presents results of his study dimensional scaling in electronics, which he undertook to satisfy himself that miniaturization of digital technology would be inevitable, and therefore become increasingly affordable and pervasive. Roger Moore attended Doug's talk in 1960, and published Moore's Law in 1965.

5-14. A Project-promotion Possibility: Research on Information Storage and Retrieval (Nov 1959)

5-10. This list has been scanned. List of People Attending Thursday Seminars (circa 1961). These "Seminars" were Doug's earliest efforts in customer-centered design, enlisting colleagues in SRI's Computer Techniques Dept in his iterative concept development efforts.

Also includes 1959 reprints of the article as appears in the Conference Digest A New Magnetic Logic System Using Simple Cores (Feb 1959)

Online in MouseSite: Program on Human Effectiveness [Dec. 1961]

Available Online: Active Projects of the SRI Computer Techniques Laboratory (July 1961) - itemizes projects by group, PI, project name, $funded, etc. - includes funding for Engelbart, Crane, Rosen, Bennion, Goldberg, Kautz, Nitzan, ...

Available Online: ARNAS Quarterly Report No.6 (Aug-Nov 1967)

This is the Oral History taken at Stanford as part of the History of Silicon Valley project. You can browse the complete transcripts at Stanford University Oral History: Doug Engelbart

The total collection at the time this Finding Aid was created in the mid 1990s, refers to their first 'Accession' of Engelbart's papers donated in 1986. In later years more materials were donated -- these were the 1998, 1999, and 2007 Accessions.

Wow - Trevor Noah

Yo-Yo Ma!

Weird Al is coming to SSU

Now that direct linking is supported, I'd love to see more user View Control emerging

Cool

Oh, I have realized it...

Follow instructions for Making Annotations

I clicked on the [note] iconbutton on the sidebar left edge, and it scrolled to the bottom of the annotation sidebar to offer me a place to enter my notes. My question is, What is this pointing to?

Now you can link directly to any point in most files on the web using hypothes.is as well!

Test

This folder also contains 2 copies of Program on Human Effectiveness printed on SRI Masthead with a 4-page brochure attached detailing the hardware acquisition.

This document available online http://stanford.io/1QPR9bZ. Also photocopied (21-Jan-2016)

Handouts(?) for the class "Below is described a complete general-purpose computer (complete but small)." As an educational tool for introducing interested people to the organization of digital computers and how programmed.

These ARNAS reports detail the quarterly progress of the team during these years -- great source for developing a Timeline of firsts.

Doug's thinkpieces and Memos ranging from considerations for Individual and Small Group Information-Handling, Physical Skill Training, Intelligent-Team Research, etc.; Costs; correspondence

(JFR) Memos and design documentation by Jeff Rulifson

CORRECTION: This listing should read simply:

6-1 "Augmented Human Intellect Study. [June 12, 1961]"

The March 1962 Document is in folder 5-1 listed above.

This quote by Doug Engelbart was selected for the IBM THINK Poster 2015 http://bit.ly/1DHBLYI. For more on the IBM THINK Exhibit see http://bit.ly/1oZu1RN.

The quote is from Engelbart's paper "Improving our Ability to Improve" http://bit.ly/1po1K7p which he presented at the World Library Summit in Singapore in 2002.

Note: You can request to see/study the actual papers in the Engelbart Collection at Stanford University Green Library, in a special reading room following these instructions. Refer to "Accession 1986-030" for any of the 17 boxes listed below, in "Collection M0638 "Douglas C Engelbart Papers"".

Scanned copy available

ACM Folder - Includes member mailing list (Gene Amdahl, Glenn Culler, ...)

Excellent article and case example of NICs in Education - adapting Doug Engelbart's concept of networked improvement communities for improving how we improve...

He's talking about the importance of a "coordinated working system" which is at once our environment and our subject of research.

More prescient than ever...