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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

• f 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
• ther

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

• Augmenting human abilities
• Bootstrapping
• Networked Improvement Community
• Dynamic Knowledge Repository
• CoDIAK
• Open Hyperdocument System
• ...

We examine Doug’s less known ideas

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