Douglas Carl Engelbart: Developing the underlying concepts for contemporary computing

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 16-26

  Barnes, Susan B ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); PERSONAL COMPUTERS; USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; TELECONFERENCING;

HYPERTEXTUAL LINKING; COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING; CONTEMPORARY COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA; ON SCREEN EDITING; WINDOWED SCREEN DESIGN; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031173079     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.601730     Document Type: Article

References (29)

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3. Ibid., p. 103.
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5. D.C. Engelbart cited in H. Rheingold, Tools for Thought. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 176.
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8. See B.L. Whorf, Language Thought and Reality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1956.
9. Engelbart, 1963.
10. Ibid., p. 14.
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20. Engelbart, 1988.
21. Ibid., pp. 202-204.
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23. D.C. Engelbart and H. Lehtman, "Working Together: The 'Human System' and the Tool System' Are Equally Important in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work," Byte, Nov. 1988, pp. 245-252.
24. D.C. Engelbart, "NLS Teleconferencing Features: The Journal, and Shared-Screen Telephoning," CompCon75 Digest, 9-11 Sept. 1975, pp. 173-176. [IEEE catalog no. 75CH0988-6C.]
25. Ibid., section 8a.
26. Engelbart and Lehtman, 1988.
27. D.C. Engelbart, "Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware," Proc. GroupWare '92 Conf., San Jose, Calif., 3-5 Aug. 1992. San Mateo, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992, pp. 77-100.
28. Engelbart, 1988.
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