2024 |
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Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson /by Douglas R. DechowDaniele C. Struppa |
May |
Smalltalk Demos by Dan Ingalls and Computer History Museum Live with Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls |
Bill Atkinson interview for InfoWorld on HyperCard
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Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 40 event at Computer History Museum
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2023 |
internal updates |
external news |
Oct |
ChronoLink to IIIF book at Internet Archive |
Seven Hypertexts by Mark W. R. Anderson & David E. Millard
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#hypertext at Brown University
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ACM HT Proceedings 1987–onwards: visualising the data dataset
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Computer History Museum – Oral History: Annette Wagner on Apple Lisa
Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on
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2022 |
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external news |
Dec |
On Real and Virtual Text IN The Future of Text III
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Douglas Engelbart, 1995: Dreaming of the Future
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Nov |
ARPAnet map 1969 - 1985 |
Pictures of ARPANet
Doug Engelbart: 1994 BBN 25th ARPANET Anniversary Lecture
SRI report on an Man-Machine Information System »ON-LINE TEXT MANIPULATION SYSTEM«
Engelbar 1970: Advanced Intellect - Augmentation Techniques :: NLS Screenshots, console
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider; A Biographical Memoir by Robert M. Fano
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Block reference mechanisms |
2021 |
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A WorldWideWeb emulator |
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How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web (2016) |
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Why are there no "standard texts" on designing software interfaces? /a twitter thread |
Sep |
Still Crazy After All These Years, ACM Hypertext 2021 |
The Atlantic: The Internet Is Rotting |
July |
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Jonathan Zittrain: The Internet Is Rotting, The Atlantic, 30-Jun2021 |
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Jony Ive: The Future of Design
Some Reflections on Early History by J.C.R. Licklider (VPRI 0093)
1995 JCN Profiles: Visionary Leaders of the Information Age - Doug Engelbart |
2020 |
internal updates |
external news |
September |
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The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart (64')
Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google 2007 |
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The Whole Earth Catalog as a Hypercard stack /via | tv |
June |
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Boris Müller, Frank Rausch: Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design |
May |
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Frode Hegland (ed.) The Future of Text Book : A 2020 Vision |
Mar |
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The Evolution of the Web - interactive timeline for 1990-2012
a copyright free photo of Alan Turing
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2019 |
internal updates |
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Engelbart's Role in Early Computer Networking
Accelerating Change 2004: Doug Engelbart Keynote Address (full video)
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Today Show, 1994: "What is internet, anyway?" |
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ARPANET and the Development of the Internet, 50 Years Later by Zoë Jackson | May 14, 2019
Touring the recreated 1969 birthplace of the internet at UCLA
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April |
Chrono Research Lab |
"The Thinking Machine" (1961) - MIT Centennial Film
incl TX-0 and TX-2 experiments on A.I.
General Magic – The Movie
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12-Mar-2019: The Web at 30 - 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web | agenda
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January |
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BYTE 8/1981 - special issue on Smalltalk |
2018 |
internal updates |
external news |
December |
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Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan (eds): The SAGE Handbook of Web History
Chapter 15 by Belinda Barnet: Hypertext before the Web – or, What the Web Could Have Been | ie. sections on NLS, Xanadu, HES/FRESS
Our People-Centred Digital Future, 10-Dec-2018 | OurDigitalFuture
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Chris Novello: Computer Utopias |
July |
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liquid thoughts by frode hegland |
February |
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Doug Engelbart Institute Videos |
January |
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The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart. farcebook announcement | trailer on utube | trailer on vimeo |
2017 |
internal updates |
external news |
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Il Rinascimento Digitale, 1997 with Derrick de Kerkhove |
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Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa: Origins of the Apple Human Interface, 1997 |
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Ivan Sutherland: The TX-2 Computer and Sketchpad, 2012
Michael Wesch: We Shape Our Tools and then Our Tools Shape Us
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John Markoff: Robert Taylor, Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing, Dies at 85, NY Times 14-Apr-2017
Scott Rosenberg: How Google Book Search Got Lost
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Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it. The Guardian March 2017 |
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David Weinberger: The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be) The Atlantic 22-Jun-2015 |
2016 |
internal updates |
external news |
December |
Several updates at Alan Kay Media Center |
Creation Myth - Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.
by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker May 2011
NLS 1968 Demo Interactive
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Introducing HyperCard /flyer |
September |
New navigation and header design |
full version of Alan Kay’s The Reactive Engine [1969]
The Freedom to Associate by Jimmy Mahler –– w/ insights on WildCard shared by Alan Kay in the comments
Check out Bret Victor | portrait | Stop Drawing Dead Fish | Inventing on Principle :: w/ a story on Larry Tesler | A Teaching UI That "Kills Math"
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August |
Context menu in main menu bar |
The lost infrastructure of social media /by Anil Dash 8/16 |
July |
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History of the hashtag /99% invisible 2014 |
June |
Apple Preisliste März 1985 / Transcription |
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April |
Happy Hacker remastered |
Max Allen and Ted Nelson discuss the future of computers (radio feature 1979), also on youtube | more at Ted Nelson Media Center |
March |
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Susan Kare at Layers 2015 |
2015 |
internal updates |
external news |
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Computing timetables |
November |
Bill Atkinson took a leave of absence to invent HyperCard.
On 16 Nov 2015, at 13:18, Bill Atkinson wrote: “True. Bill” |
Alan Kay: Enlightened Imagination For Citizens /more at Alan Kay’s Bibliography & Videography
Don Norman, Bruce Tognazzini: How Apple is giving Design a bad name. fastcodesign 11/2015 /via TidBITS
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October |
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J. Yellowless Douglas: Something from Nothing: The Paradoxes and Challenges of Communicating Innovation |
April |
photo set: Informatik Museum Hamburg |
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March |
22 new entries to Alan Kay's Bibliography |
Yeni Ürün Tasarım, Geliştirme, CAD/CAM/CAE ve İmalat Teknolojileri
with yet unseen images of TX-0
The History of the Drop-Shadow
"The Demo" – Doug Engelbart's Mother of all Demos as musical on stage
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2014 |
internal updates |
external news |
November |
Alto/Smalltalk videos via Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering:
15 yrs celebrations keynote: We were standing on the shoulders of giants
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Pictures from a Revolution by Doug Menuez
The Hypercard Legacy
As we may understand – A constructionist approach to ‘behaviour change’ and the Internet of Things by Dan Lockton
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October |
Herzliche Grüße ans Seminar zur Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Informationsverarbeitung an der Uni Köln |
The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium 1995 – Video Archive with
- Alan Kay: Simex: the neglected part of Bush's Vision
- Ted Nelson: Where the Trail Leads
- and Doug Engelbart, Paul Kahn, Tim Berners-Lee among others…
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May |
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Ted Nelson's Computer Lib is being republished + Ted at Homebrew Computer Club |
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Turing Complete User by Olia Lialina, October 2012 – Video at 30c3
Author by Frode Hegland – a text editor project influenced by NLS/Augment
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Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart at Ted Nelson Media Center
All the Widgets by Brad Myers (ed)
Window Cooling at Xerox Star
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January |
All chapters are published on the web.
- Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs - Chapter 2.1 History of Hypertext Systems
- Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs - Chapter 2.2 Theory of Hypertext
- Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs - Chapter 3.1 History of Graphical User Interfaces
- Vision and Reality of Hypertext and GUIs - Chapter 3.2 Human Factors
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Rainer Joswig gives a demo of the Symbolics Document Examiner
Animated demo of Vannevar Bush’s Memex
Referenziert in Kitsch im Zeitalter des iPads, Simon Schmidt, GRIN 2011
Referenced by Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Graham Low (ed. et al.), 2010
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2013 |
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Ted Nelson References: Video interview with Ted Nelson on The Future of Text |
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The History of the Computer - Overview 1936-2013 by itr |
August |
Hyperland republished /by Douglas Adams with Ted Nelson
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Ivan Sutherland: What Things Look Like. 2012 Kyoto Prize Commemorable Lecutre |
May |
Codex - Memex - Genex, Ben Shneiderman at CHI ’98 |
Oral History: The Web Project by NetAffair |
April |
new entry on Alan Kay’s bibliography: |
An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay. Interview by David Greelish, Time Tech, 2-Apr-2013 |
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The Deep Insights of Alan Kay |
January |
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Anil Dash: The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost |
2012 |
internal updates |
external news |
September |
Photos of Zuse’s Computers |
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August |
Chapter 2.1.2 Xanadu
Chapter 2.1.10 HyperCard – 25 years of HyperCard
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The Verge: The very first www page and Tim Berners-Lee's page from HyperText '91 via Paul Jones
Ted Nelson's movie from 1959 The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow
Online University - History of the Internet
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Ted Nelson: Computer for Cynics, series of videocasts |
2011 |
internal updates |
external news |
Nov |
Frank Ludolph‘s last working day, and his presentation at CHI ’98 |
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Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel, 2010 |
Aug |
Photo of HES (Hypertext Editing System), 1969 |
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Jul |
Zurück in die Kindheit – Infantilisierung im UI Design
Back to Childhood – Infantilisation of UI Design
Ivan Sutherland on The Art of Engineering and the Engineering of Art, Hyperkult XX
Alan Kay: Programming and Scaling. Hasso Plattner Institute, 21-July-2011, 57'
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Ivan Sutherland at Oral history database, Charles Babbage Institute
The Buxton Collection
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>Bill Verplank’s Opening Keynote at Interaction 11 |
2010 |
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external news |
Oct |
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Ted Nelson at ACM Hypertext 2001
New community for the history of informatics at LinkedIn
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Sep |
Über das Verhältnis von OO-Programmierung und GUI-Design, Korrespondenz mit Ines aus Wien |
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Juli |
iPAD’s Natural User Interface |
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Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing – A 40th Year Celebration |
January |
Ivan Sutherland on Leadership, Sun 2006 |
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2009 |
internal updates |
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November |
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link from OSnews: Common Usability Terms: pt. IX: the Menu
referenced by Reformation Bibles and the Personal Computer, Kaoru Yamazaki, 2002
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October |
section 2.1.14 World Wide Web is online |
link from interstices.info: Synthèse d'images
link from Sourcebits Blog: Handy Resources for Those Who Like to Doodle
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link from Hypertext – Links from the past |
June |
Kapitel 5 online: Vom Persönlichen Computer zum Sozialen Medium. Paradigmenwechsel der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion |
The Future of the Desktop by Nova Spivack ReadWriteWeb, Aug 2008
Aurora concept video, Adaptive Path
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May |
Chapter 2.1.15 Hyper-G/Hyperwave |
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March |
links to Department of Informatics Hamburg fixed |
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2008 |
internal updates |
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December |
Chapter 2.1.3 NLS/Augment
Chapter 3.1.3 NLS/Augment |
40 year anniversary of the mothe of all demos |
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referenced by Peter Friedrich Stephan: Cognitive Design – Eine Perspektive der Designforschung, 2005
linked at History of Pen Computing: Annotated Bibliography in On-line Character Recognition and Pen Computing
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July |
new section online: Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Device |
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February |
Fixed links to Bruce Horn and his iFile project |
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January |
Interface Culture (blog) |
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2007 |
internal updates |
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October |
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linked by Jon Berry's Essay #1 - Literary Website Critique - Sam Hughes' "Ed" |
September |
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Philipp Dennert's diploma: Enabling the User. Zu den historischen Möglichkeitsbedingungen des Computer-Benutzers. 105 pages, 4.8 MB |
June |
Alan Kay 1972: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages
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Dr. h.c. to Alan Kay |
May |
A Duel Between Desktop and Web – presentation at reboot9
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referenced by
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MEDICHI 2007
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Mar |
Dueling Interaction Models of Personal-Computing and Web-Computing – presentation at MEDICHI
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referenced by velasquez: Il Futuro del Desktop, Oct 2006 (Italian)
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2006 |
internal updates |
external news |
Dec |
Chapter 3.1.2 Sketchpad is online
Got mail from Ivan Sutherland
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History of the Button
Reference from Alan Blackwell: The reification of metaphor as a design tool
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Oct |
Douglas Adams’ Hyperland film (1990) features Ted Nelson
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I like the reference to my chapter Three Stages of Human Development on
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Sep |
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bookmarks on del.iccio.us
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Aug |
article on Ted Nelson and Xanadu with a special focus on the incorporated copyright issues
Mac UI Ain't All That: The Future & History of the User Interface by John Kheit
Alan Kay at EuroPython 2006
Alan Kay at U of Utah (2 lectures in Feb 2006)
HyperScope 1.0 by Engelbart et al.
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referenced by
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referenced by
cited in
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May |
updated links to Engelbart's papers in References and in Friedewald's Resources |
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Mar |
Ted Nelson 1999: Way Out Of The Box
CHI 98 recording of Lisa presentation
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referenced by
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referenced by iqnaut: Hypertext |
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referenced by VIS242. Theories of Media and New Media, University of California, San Diego |
2005 |
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Dec |
Ted Nelson lecture at U of Oxford, 2005 (webcast) |
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cited in Evolución y tendencias en la interacción persona–ordenador por Mireia Ribera Turró, profesora en la Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Universidad de Barcelona. |
Oct |
A lecure and 3 new articles by Alan Kay (watch out for the stars)
An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum
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Computer History Museum: Software Collection Commitee is preserving NLS/Augment
referenced by
Kay 69 is referenced by:
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Aug |
Kempelen Prize 2005 |
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Jul |
60 Jahre nach Memex: Über die Unvereinbarkeit von Desktop- und Web-Paradigma |
Memex Simulator – an open source project in progress
A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator by K. Andrew Edmonds, James Blustein and Don Turnbull
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Jun |
reboot7
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SiliconValleyWatcher June 9: A tribute to one of Silicon Valley's most influential and forgotten researchers at Xerox Parc event
SiliconValleyWatcher June 10: Exclusive interview with seminal 1960s computer visionary Doug Engelbart – he's still here and looking for funding
fischmarkt.de: reboot7
Referenced on delicious by smi and acer
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May |
Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad - A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System is online as pdf: [Sutherland 63a]
Related Reports and Articels: Alan Blackwell’s publications
Correspondence with Alan Blackwell
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Mar |
In Memoriam: Jef Raskin |
cited in Evolution der Neuen Medien in der Lehre 19 Seiten, 544kB by Marc-Oliver Pahl, entstanden zum eLearning-Seminar von Frank Hanisch am Institut für graphisch interaktive Systeme der Universität Tübingen, 2003
referenced by exsugo.de ->douglas_c_engelbart /Mirago
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Kay/Goldberg 77: Personal Dynamic Media |
The New Media Reader
referenced by Advanced Concepts in Document Processing, Seminar at U of Magdeburg, Germany
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Jan |
section 3.2.2 Three Stages of Human Development online
Alan Kay 2002: The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet - Grand Challenge: Make It Happen In The Best Possible Way
Interview wiith Kay, Papert, and Minsky, ACM Communications 2005
Designing the Star User Interface [Smith et al. 82] online
The AskTog Bug House
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2004 |
internal updates |
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Dec |
Resources on the concept of Learning |
referenced by Tom Kindig on tokind |
Nov |
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referenced by Jörg Richter on DeepaMehta: Human-Computer Interaction |
Jul |
Alan Kay 1977: Microelectronics and the Personal Computer |
referenced by Jochen Denzinger on designing ubicomp_weblog; designing ubiquitous computing |
Jun |
historical overviews of chapter 2 Hypertext and chapter 3 Graphical User Interfaces are now online
Robert Cailliau's personal Web site
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Apr |
Polaroids of the early Lisa UI by Andy Hertzfeld |
squeak news: Turing Award goes to Alan Kay
heise ticker: Alan Kay erhält den Turing Award 2003
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Jan |
38 pages of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines transcripted |
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2003 |
internal updates |
external news |
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reference on understanding interface (in deutsch) by Sascha Kirschgens |
Nov |
50 minutes video of Ted Nelson at ACM Hypertext 01 |
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More than 100 people have requested a copy of my work. Time to say thank you!
5 new reference to this page on
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Sep |
Related Articles: The Commercial Feasibility of a Next-Generation User Interface by Jared White
Ted Nelson's keynote at HT03 in Nottingham
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papers citing my thesis:
Drag & Drop Scripting: How To Do Hypermedia Right by F. Hanisch and W. Straßer, University of Tübingen, Sep 2003
Multiple Links im World Wide Web von Volkert Buchmann, Studienarbeit an der Uni Hamburg. Nov 2002
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Jun |
new references to Alan Kay’s thoughts |
new references on langreiter.com, and by Stefan Rinner.st, and on the Wiki pages at emergent.de: Reflection in Action |
Apr |
History: DigiBarn Computer Museum
Past Projects: 30th anniversary of the Xerox Alto
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This site is references by DigiBarn Computer Museum’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective and by Wikipedia on Alan Kay |
Feb |
Alan Kay joins HP Labs
Link maintenance on Web References
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Jan |
Current Projects: Abora Hypertext Systems
related thesis: hypertextual criticism. MA by Jill Walker
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This site is references by abora.org - links
thesis announced at the CHI Recently Completed Theses List
referenced in Hypertexte im Unterricht: Begriffsbestimmung und didaktische Funktion - Manfred Overmann 2003
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2002 |
internal updates |
external news |
Dec |
Current Research Teams: Frode Hegland’s Liquid Information is back on air. He is also working on a documentary “Invisible Revolution - The Doug Engelbart Story” for TV/DVD. |
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Nov
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Bruce Horn is working on a new Finder: iFile
Michael McGuffin's work on Fitt's Law: thesis and paper for CHI 2002
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This Site is referenced by apeshallnotkillape.org and the surf*mind*web collection. |
Oct
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Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad - A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System is online as facsimile: [Sutherland 63a]
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This Site is referenced by Marcus Denker’s Wiki pages at the keyword Computer History. It is also refernced by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal’s CommonMe.org. |
Sep
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Interview with David Curbow on OpenDoc
Historical Documents of the Star
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Softwareergonomie – Eine Ausstellung anläßlich der Mensch & Computer 2002 in Hamburg
met with Alan Kay – delightful!
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Aug
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Mail from David Curbow on Xerox Star/ViewPoint
second printing of FBI-HH-B-237/02
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Jul
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Past Projects: Apple Lisa – original documentation
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Jun
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updates on the the page Unfinished Revolution (contents for session III and session IV).
And a bunch of new publications by Alan Kay (References)
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Feb
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the thesis is published as a report of the Department of Informatics: Bericht des Fachbereichs Informatik, Universität Hamburg: FBI-HH-B-237/02 |
Jan 2002
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thesis rated 1.3 (magna cum laude) |
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2001 |
internal updates |
external news |
Nov
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The Making Of: Seminar Studien- und Diplomarbeiten
12 Nov 2001 : filed the final version today
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Oct
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Oberseminarvortrag: Vision und Wirklichkeit des Hypertexts und der Grafischen Benutzungsschnittstellen Abstract |
Sep
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Related Reports and Articles: Beyond the Browser: Rediscovering the Role of the Desktop in a Net-centric World
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Aug
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Augmented Books
Negroponte’s Dataland
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New title: Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces (was: Vision and Reality of Hypertext and the Graphical User Interface);
mostly because of [Nelson 99b] «this so-called GUI - I would rather call it the PUI (PARC User Interface) {{laughter}} because there are so many millions of graphical user interfaces possible» |
Jul
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Ted Nelson on Xanalogical Structure
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Nelson’s Canons: A Bill of Information Rights taken from Dream Machines, 74
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Post von Ludger Humbert: Alan Kay verläßt Disney
Kommentar dazu von Markus Denker
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Ted Nelson’s and Alan Kay’s bibliography
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Apr
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Post von Marcus Denker zu Dynabook und Squeak
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Mail from Alan Kay on Dynabook
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Mail from Alan Kay on early days at Parc
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Mail from Jeff Johnson on consistency of Xerox Star
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Mar
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Alan Kay’s Ph.D. thesis: The Reactive Engine
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Feb
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Thesis on Hyper-G
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IZHD: International Bibliography of Hypermedia
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Fitts’ Law
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Jan 2001
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German correspondence
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[Friedewald 99] References and Resources
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2000 |
internal updates |
external news |
Dec
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cpsr-history
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met with Tog and Jakob Nielsen |
Nov
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Alan Kay on his Ph.D. thesis (e-mail)
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day 1 of my thesis: 13-Nov |
Oct
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Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution – Video
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Sep
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Past Projects: Xerox Bravo by Charles Simonyi
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e-mail correspondence
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Past Projects: Xerox Alto & Xerox Star
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Past Projects: Symbolics Document Examiner/Concordia
Current Projects: CLIM
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Current Projects: Semantic Web
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History: RWTH Aachen - Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Technik
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Past Projects: Taligent, HotJava Views
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Current Projects: Alan Kay - Smalltalk, Ben Shneiderman - PAD++
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Aug
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Current Research Teams: Links to Bootstrap Institute & Liquid Information Organization
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Related Thesis
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Google search on ontological drift, Semiotisches Dreieck
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Current Projects: Ted Nelson - Xanadu
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Current Research Teams: Robert Cailliau
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Launch of this web site
History: Nerds
Current Projects: Eazel
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Current Research Teams:Pliant, AskTog, Byteburg
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Jul 2000
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ontological drift, information
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