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Curriculum Vitae  Dr.
Douglas C. Engelbart,Director, Bootstrap Institute, incorporated in 1988 as a California corporation (but operated more like a non-profit institute in our quest to form strategic alliances aimed at dramatically improving organizations and society at large.) 2 Born Education Employment: See biographical sketch by Christina Engelbart. 2D Patents Honors Associations Public life Technical publications _____ Re Honorary Doctorate, Oregon State University. Citation, dated June 12, 1994: 9A Upon recommendation of the Faculty Committee on Honorary Doctorates, and with the approval of the State Board of Higher Education, the President of the University has selected the following recipient to receive an honorary doctorate: DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART, Doctor of Engineering 9A1 Douglas C. Engelbart, a 1948 graduate of OSU in electrical engineering, is one of the true pioneers in the computing industry. Almost every person who uses a personal computer, at home or in the office likely has been influenced by his creative mind. 9A2 Engelbart has had an enormous impact on modern computing, yet he has received little recognition for his efforts. He invented the concept of computer "windows," which allow users access to multiple directories or files, and presents them in a more visual manner. 9A3 He also is credited with the invention of the computer mouse, a handy gadget that allows the user to quickly and efficiently move the cursor to a desired location. 9A4 These inventions emerged from a comprehensive strategic framework which Engelbart formulated in 1962 as an effort to integrate computer systems. Other now-common features developed in that early effort include integrated electronic mail, hypermedia, structured document files, and multi-tool integration. 9A5 Today, many of these features are found on software marketed by industry giants, including Apple Computer and Microsoft, and by hundreds of smaller companies around the world. 9A6 During his distinguished career, he has been a university educator, a research scientist, and an administrator. Since 1990, Engelbart has directed the Bootstrap Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., an organization that works closely with government and industry on the development of advanced knowledge. 9A7 Engelbart has received
numerous awards for his achievements, including the American Ingenuity
Award. Re Honorary Doctorate, Santa Clara University. Citation, dated June 17, 2001: 9B The President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara University Hereby Confer Upon Douglas C. Engelbart The Degree of Doctor of Science Honoris Causa. 9B1 A modern-day pioneer, you are one of a handful of trailblazers who helped to transform this region from the Valley of the Heart's Delight to the Silicon Valley, known around the world as the center of the high-tech revolution. 9B2 Over the past 30 years, you have imagined and created some of the most important tools in computer technology, including display editing, windows, hypermedia, and the mouse itself. At your hand began the clicking and double-clicking that is now heard around the world. 9B3 Today your concepts and inventions are widely recognized as central to the development of the industry, but this was not always the case. Over the years, you and your ideas were sometimes met with confusion, rejection, and outright hostility. But, as you once said of your life, 'The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. I have tolerated a lot.' 9B4 A true visionary, you forged on through this storm of adversity, intent on bringing your ideas to life, and the world is a better place because of your perseverance. 9B5 In 1988, you and your daughter founded the Bootstrap Institute to highlight the many challenges we face as a society and to explore more effective ways to communicate and solve problems. Along with your technological creations, the Institute illustrates your devotion to collaboration, and your belief in boosting our collective capabilities. 9B6 For your brilliant mind, for your fearless pursuit of innovation, and for the countless ways your creations have advanced this valley and the world, Santa Clara University is proud to honor you today. 9B7 Affixed with the seal
of the University and given at Santa Clara on the seventeenth day of
June in the year of Our Lord two thousand one. Imagine what we can
accomplish together
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Press clipping: 11A
From a letter in Time
of November 20, 2000, by Curtis R. Carlson, President and CEO, SRI
International, Menlo Park, CA.: 11A1
Your article on Xerox noted
that its research center Xerox PARC was responsible for the computer
mouse. Douglas C. Engelbart and his team at SRI International (which was
then known as Stanford Research Institute) invented the mouse and
created the foundations for personal computing. The patent for the mouse
was filed in 1967, three years before Xerox PARC was established in 1981. 11A2
Genesis of the
mouse: 11B
From the introduction of Augmenting
human intellect: A conceptual framework (1962): 11B1
Let us consider an
augmented architect at work. He sits at a working station that has a
visual display screen some three feet on a side; this is his working
surface, and is controlled by a computer (his "clerk") with which he can
communicate by means of a small keyboard and various other devices. 11B2
He is designing a building. He has already dreamed up several basic layouts and structural forms, and is trying them out on the screen. The surveying data for the layout he is working on now have already been entered, and he has just coaxed the clerk to show him a perspective view of the steep hillside building site with the roadway above, symbolic representations of the various trees that are to remain on the lot, and the service tie points for the different utilities. The view occupies the left two-thirds of the screen. With a pointer he indicates two points of interest, moves his left hand rapidly over the keyboard, and the distance and elevation between the points indicated appear on the right-hand third of the screen. 11B3
From Vannevar Bush's, As
we may think (1945, quoted by Engelbart in Augmenting human
intellect). 11B4
"Consider a future device
for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and
library. It needs a name, and to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A
memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records,
and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted
with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate
supplement to his memory. 11B4A
"It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk. 11B4B
"In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely. 11B4C
"Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place.Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry.On the top of the memex is a transparent platen. On this are placed longhand notes, photographs, memoranda, all sort of things. When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space in a section of the memex film, dry photography being employed. 11B4D
"There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions. Frequently-used codes are mnemonic, so that he seldom consults his code book; but when he does, a single tap of a key projects it for his use. Moreover, he has supplemental levers. On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each. If he deflects it further to the right, he steps through the book 10 pages at a time; still further at 100 pages at a time. Deflection to the left gives him the same control backward. 11B4E
"A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another. He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him. 11B4F
"All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. If affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. 11B4G
"When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it out on his keyboard. Before him are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions. At the bottom of each there are a number of blank code spaces, and a pointer is set to indicate one of these on each item. The user taps a single key, and the items are permanently joined. In each code space appears the code word. Out of view, but also in the code space, is inserted a set of dots for photocell viewing; and on each item these dots by their positions designate the index number of the other item. 11B4H
"Thereafter, at any time, when one of these items is in view, the other can be instantly recalled merely by tapping a button below the corresponding code space. Moreover, when numerous items have been thus joined together to form a trail, they can be reviewed in turn, rapidly or slowly, by deflecting a lever like that used for turning the pages of a book. It is exactly as though the physical items had been gathered together to form a new book. It is more than this, for any item can be joined into numerous trails." 11B4I
