Doug Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution— Program for the Future Challenge Dino Karabeg
Goals • ‘Transplant’ to Ifi a strategic research direction • Connect Ifi graduate students with corresponding R&D community
This talk will introduce • INF9119 • Program for the Future Challenge
Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
• “word processing” • windows • teleconferencing • intranets • bitmapped screens • hypertext • hypermedia • groupware • “wikiness” • email...
What will the Silicon Valley do when they run out of Doug’s ideas? Alan Kay
And yet Doug felt, notoriously, that he was failing...
Program for the Future Initiated at Stanford University & San Jose Tech Museum on Dec. 9, 2008 to continue and complete Doug’s work
Sam Hahn at Doug’s Commemoration, July 2013
Program for the Future Challenge Launched at Google on Dec. 9, 2013 to • Understand Doug’s unfinished work • Initiate new creative directions in IT R&D • Orchestrate an ‘uncompetition’ to create a collection of 2018 ‘demos’ • Projects collaborate and learn from each other
The Unfinished Revolution • See also Doug Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution at MIT Technology Review
Doug Engelbart
Program for the Future at Ifi • INF9119: Doug Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution — Program for the Future • Program for the Future Workshop, Summer 2014
INF9119 We examine Doug’s less known ideas • Augmenting human abilities • Bootstrapping • Networked Improvement Community • Dynamic Knowledge Repository • CoDIAK • Open Hyperdocument System • ...
We explore candidate ‘demos’ and begin to create our own ones
We create a ‘window into the world’—a place to explore ideas, meet experts...
For more information • Doug Engelbart DebateGraph map by David Price • Invisible Revolution Web documentary by Frode Hagland
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