Connecting Doug Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Program for the Future.

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Douglas Engelbart &
Collective Intelligence MAS672
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Dec. 9th, 1968
NLS (oN-Line System) demo at
FJCC 69 in San Francisco
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Augmenting Human Intellect
Douglas Engelbart
• In the early 1950s, Douglas Engelbart
was struck with the notion of using
computers as thinking tools to
augment the mind, ideas influenced
by Vannevar Bush.
• After six years of work at the Augmentation
Research Center (ARC) at the SRI, he
created the world's first interactive information
system, NLS (oN Line System).
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
NLS (oN Line System)
Douglas Engelbart, 1968
• Demo at the FJCC (Fall Joint
Computer Conference) in
San Francisco on Dec. 8, 1968
• The first knowledge machine that paved the way
for the interactive personal computer as well as
groupware.
– word processing, outline processing, split
windows, hypermedia, mouse, one-hand KBD,
shared documents, e-mail, filtering, desktop
conferencing
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Dec. 9th, 1968
NLS (oN-Line System) demo at
FJCC 69 in San Francisco
Dec 8th-9th, 2008
Program for the Future Conference
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Dec 8th-9th, 2008
Program for the Future Conference
http://programforthefuture.org/
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© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Dec 8th-9th, 2008
Program for the Future Conference
http://programforthefuture.org/
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Program for the Future
Global Design Challenge
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/
the Tech Museum of Innovation in collaboration with the MIT Museum
Your Challenge:
Develop a practical method, tool or technology that connects
people so that they collectively act more intelligently. We are
looking for new ideas – even simple ideas – that help people
work better and smarter together in some important area.
The challenge embraces all areas of human endeavor – not
just technical domains like computing or engineering but also
the arts, business, economics, education, government, health,
law, philanthropy, science and other spheres. Winning entries
will be displayed in the participating museums.
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Program for the Future
Global Design Challenge
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/
Background:
The Program for the Future Global Design Challenge is inspired by
the vision of Douglas C. Engelbart, who fifty years ago saw that the
big problems mankind faced were growing faster than our ability to
solve them. In response, Dr. Engelbart began his life-long quest to
improve our collective intelligence. It is in that spirit that the Tech
Museum of Innovation and the MIT Museum are sponsoring a
design challenge to inspire innovators around the world to build the
next generation of tools to augment our ability to think and work
collectively.The Program for the Future Design Challenge is
organized by the Tech Museum of Innovation in collaboration with
the MIT Museum, under the supervision of a distinguished Board of
Advisors © 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
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Program for the Future
Global Design Challenge
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/
2009 Design Challenge Timeline
• Dec. 8, 2008 2009 Design Challenge Launch
• Nov. 20, 2009 Entry Deadline for 2009 Challenge
• Dec. 9, 2009 Winners Announced
• Dec. 9, 2009 2010 Design Challenge Launch
• June, 2010 Tentative Exhibition Opening
• Nov. 20, 2010 Entry Deadline for 2010 Challenge
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Program for the Future
Global Design Challenge
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/
2009 Design Challenge Timeline
• Dec. 8, 2008 2009 Design Challenge Launch
• Nov. 20, 2009 Entry Deadline for 2009 Challenge
• Dec. 9, 2009 Winners Announced
• Dec. 9, 2009 2010 Design Challenge Launch
• June, 2010 Tentative Exhibition Opening
• Nov. 20, 2010 Entry Deadline for 2010 Challenge
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
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© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
Douglas Engelbart &
Collective Intelligence MAS672
© 2009 MIT Media Laboratory, Hiroshi Ishii
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