Bootstrapping Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing

Name: Bootstrapping Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
Price: 14.68 USD
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ISBN: 9780804738712

ISBN-10: 0804738718

ISBN-13: 9780804738712

Edition: 2000

Authors: Thierry Bardini

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Douglas Engelbart and his team developed many of the cornerstones of modern computing, such as the mouse, hypertext and networking. This text tells the story of his vision, which led to radical changes in technology and peoples' work patterns.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Douglas Engelbart's Crusade for the Augmentation of Human Intellect



Language and the Body



The Chord Keyset and the QWERTY Keyboard



The Invention of the Mouse



Inventing the Virtual User



SRI and the oN-Line System



The Arrival of the Real User and the Beginning of the End



"Of Mice and Man": ARPANET, E-mail, and est


Coda: Where Hand and Memory Can Meet Again



Personnel at Engelbart's SRI Lab


Notes


Works Cited


Index