Ted Nelson Media Center @mprove

Verified references have signatures with square brackets. The others are taken from various sources, but I still dare to get my fingers on them. Please let me know, if you find new references to Ted Nelson’s oeuvre: contact mprove

Thanks to Francesc Hervada-Sala, Hartmut Obendorf, and Jakob Voss.

Year		Reference
[1957]		Nelson, Theodor Holm (lyrics) / Richard Caplan (music): Anything & Everything \| poster
[1959]		Nelson, Theodor Holm (director): The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow. 33'. Slocum Furlow Scene 7 - The Classroom
1959		Nelson, Theodor Holm: Life, Love, College, etc. (originally entitled We Need a Sociology Department)
[1961]		–––––: The Whole Thing /via: my whole 1961 philosophy manuscript, as messed up by flooding 22+22+26+24+18+28+22+30 pages \| PDF
1965		–––––:The Hypertext, in: Proc. World Documentation Federation Conf. 1965
[1965]		–––––: A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate, ACM 20^th National Conference, pages 84-100, 1965
1965		–––––: Suggestion for an On-Line Braille Display. proceedings of the Society for Information Display autumn 1965
1965		–––––: Computer-Indexed Film Handling. SMPTE conference preprint autumn 1965
1966		–––––: Hypertext Notes: ten brief essays on hypertext forms circulated in manuscript circa 1966
[22-Sep-1966]		–––––: Hard and Fast Thoughts for a Softcopy World at Rand Corporation (67 minutes audio)
23-Dec-1966		–––––: Xanadu66 Manual
[1967]		–––––: Getting It Out of Our System. In George Schlechter (ed), Information Retrieval: A Critical Review. p. 191-210, Thompson Books, 1967.
[1967]		–––––: Ted Nelson’s patent database diagram
1967		–––––: Media 72 (unpublished)
1969		n.n.: Nelson’s the Name, and What He Proposes Could Outdo Engelbart. Electronics Magazine, 24 Nov 69, p. 79
1969		Steven Carmody, Walter Gross, Theodor H. Nelson, David Rice, and Andries van Dam. A Hypertext Editing System for the /360 in Faiman and Nievergelt (eds.) Pertinent Concepts in Computer Graphics: Proceedings of the Second University of Illinois Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 291-330, University of Illinois Press, 1969
1970		–––––: No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks. Computer Decisions September 1970, Fully reprinted in Ted Nelson, "Computer Lib" 1974
[1970]		–––––: BARNUM-TRONICS, a grand declaration of intent in Swartmore Collage Bulletin, Alumni Issue Dec 1970
[1970]		–––––: Ted Nelson hypertext notes – Ted Nelson’s handwritten notes on hypertext. These notes address the possibilities for hypertext applications in the field of patent law and include various annotated documents.
1971		–––––: Computopia and Cypercrud. In: Roger Levien (ed.): Computers in Introduction. Rand Corporation, 1971
[1973]		–––––: As We Will Think. Proceedings of Online 72 Conference, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England, 1973. Reprinted In: Nyce, James / Kahn, Paul (eds): From Memex to Hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine. p. 245. Academic Press, Boston, MA, 1991 \| 1972 edition
1973		–––––: A Conceptual Framework for Man-Machine Everything. proceedings of the AFIPS National Joint Computer Conference 1973
[Nelson 74]		–––––: Computer Lib / Dream Machines; Distributors, South Bend IN, 1974. (some excerpts) Computer Lib Dream Machines is being republished (2014). ChronoLink to internet archive
1974		Ted Nelson, in Levien (editor):Computopia and Cybercrud. The Rand Corporation 1974
1974		Ted Nelson, Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin: Computer Graphics as a Way of Life. proceedings of the first SIGGRAPH conference 1974
1977		–––––: The Home Computer Revolution
1977		–––––: Selected Paper 1965-1977, 124 pages
1978		–––––: View from the Top – Techno Politics in Penthouse 10/1978, pp 52-54
1978		–––––: Computer Lib in Omni 11/1978, pp 59-62 \| on vendor lock-in
[1979]		Max Allen and Ted Nelson discuss the future of computers (CBC Radio Rewind), also on youtube
1980		–––––: Replacing the Printed [Written??] Word: A Complete Literary System, Lavington, Simon H., : Information Processing: Proceedings of the 1980 IFIP World Computer Congress , 8, 1013-1023. North-Holland, Amsterdam
1980		–––––: Interactive Systems and the Design of Virtuality. Creative Computing, 6(11 & 12), 1980 [by Tog’s Magic and Software Design]
1981		–––––: Literary Machines. Swarthmore, PA. 1981
1986		–––––: The Tyranny of the File. Datamation magazine 15 December 1986
1987		–––––: Literary Machines, volume Version 87.1. Published by author, 1987. /at internet archive
1987		–––––: Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Microsoft Press, Washington, 16011 NE 36th Way, Box 97017 Redmon, Washington, 1987.
1987		–––––: All For One and One For All, Hypertext `87 Proceedings, November 1987
1988		–––––: Managing immense storage. Byte, 13(1):225--233, 1988.
[1990]		–––––: The Right Way to Think About Software Design. In: Laurel, Brenda (ed): The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. p. 235-243. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990 amazon.com
[1990]		Douglas Adams: Hyperland. 50' BBC 1990
[11/1990]		TEDtalk by TED at the TED2 conference, 9-Nov-1990 \| better audio \| toot
1990		–––––: General Schematics: Introduction to the terminology
1991		–––––: Speech delivered at MultiMedia Expo '91, New York
1992		XOC, Inc.: Xanadu Hypermedia Server, Developer Documentation, Mindful Press, (1992).
1992]_IZHD		–––––: Opening Hypertext: A Memoir. In: Tuman, M.C. (ed): Literacy Online. The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh (1992) - pp. 43-57
[1992]		Nelson, Theodor Holm (director): Silicon Valley Story. Preview 1.3. Starring Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart, Rick Mascitti, Stewart Brand, and Timothy Leary as the venture capitalist. The Timothy Leary Archives #189. (also at youtube)
[1992]		Ted Nelson interviewed by John Perry Barlow, Mondo 2000
[1993]		Nelson, Theodor Holm: Literary Machines. 93.1. Mindful Press, Sausalito, CA, 1993. LM^{(Oct 2000)}/ at Eastgate Systems
1994		–––––: Xanadu: Document Interconnection Enabling Re-Use with Automatic Author Credit and Royalty Accounting. Information Services & Use , 14 (1994).
1994		–––––: Cinema for the Mind, U.C. Santa Cruz part 2
1994		–––––: Cinema for the Mind
1995		–––––: Transcopyright:unpublished.
[1995]		–––––: The heart of connection: hypermedia unified by transclusion. In: Communications of the ACM. Vol. 38(8) p. 31-33, 1995 “transpointing windows”
[1995b]		–––––: Where the Trail Leads at The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium 1995 – Video Archive, YouTube
1995		Ted Nelson at the Vannevar Bush Symposium 1995 \| internet archive
[1996]		–––––: Generalized Links, Micropayment and Transcopyright, Interview by Doug Crockford, IBM Research (local paper copy)
[1997]		–––––: The Future of Information. ASCII Corporation, Tokyo, 1997. ~~INFUTscans~~^{(Oct 2000)}
[1997b]		–––––: Embedded Markup Considered Harmful. In XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques (World Wide Web Journal 2(4, Fall) 1997.
[1997c]		–––––: Crush and Crash: Logic of a Terrible Tomorrow. In: Communications of the ACM. Vol. 40 No. 2 p. 90-91, 1997
[1998]		––––– and Pam, Andrew: ZigZag^(tm) Hyperstructure Kit:The ZigZag Commands. Project Xanadu, version 0.49 edition, 1998
[1999]		–––––: Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning and Deep Re-Use. In: ACM Computing Surveys. Vol. 31 No. 4es, 1999. Virtually transcluded and re-layouted version (original at xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html)
[Nelson 99b]		–––––: The unfinished revolution and Xanadu. In: ACM Computing Surveys. Vol. 31 No. 4es, 1999 presented at Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution (Symposium), Dec ’98
[Nelson 99c]		–––––: Time To Liberate The Web. In: Inter@ctive Week, October 25, 1999 ~~academy.smc.edu/vanallen/tednelson_liberate.htm~~
[1999]		–––––: JFax > PDF. e-mail with Matthias Müller-Prove, Oct. 1999
[Nelson 99d]		–––––: Way Out Of The Box ted.hyperland.com/TQdox/zifty.d9-TQframer.html
[2000]		–––––: Re: Do I know you?. email with Matthias Müller-Prove, Apr. 2000
2000		–––––: Citizen Nelson
2001		–––––: Philosophy of Hypertext, PhD thesis amazon
[2001]		Ted Nelson at ACM Hypertext 2001 Some quotes: [2'10"] I think of the world wide web and XML and cascading style sheets is the ultimate triumph of the typewriter over the author. +++ three fundamental problems today: 1) hierarchical file structures 2) simulation of paper 3) the application prison +++ [12'40"] Software is a branch of movie making. +++ [17'50"] The question is about starting over. +++ ZigZag / Authoplectic structures where trees and tables are just edge cases. +++ www.gzigzag.org
[2001]		Visionary Lays Into the Web / We have settled for less. Ted Nelson interview on BBC Go Digital, 2001
[2001]		–––––: Some Alternative Computer Universe IN Creative Digital Media, p33-38
[2003]		–––––: Structure, Tradition and Possibility; keynote at ACM Hypertext 2003, Nottingham,abstract, ~~photo gallery with slides~~
[2004]		–––––: Ted’s best lecure ever, Oxford 16-Jun-2004
[2004]		–––––: Rose-Hulman Institute, Sep 30 2004
2005		–––––: TransLit™, the new open-source Xanadu. new (1)2005, author info
[2005]		–––––: The Politics Of Internet Software 'Geeks Bearing Gifts'. oxford internet institute: webcast (1:26') \| archived Quote: [27'] ”War is too important to be left to the generals“. – The software is too important to human life to allow the decissions to be made by those with only technical background.
?		–––––: A Very General Lecture; at Oxford
[2007]		–––––: Transclusion: Fixing Electronic Literature. Google TechTalk Jan 29, 2007 (53')
[2007]		–––––: Intertwingularity. When Ideas Collide. Video at University of Southhampton, May 2007 – a month before his 70^th birthday (90') / at youtube
[2007]		–––––: Ted Nelson on Software (7')
[2007]		–––––: Ted Nelson TV interview in Brazil Some artist asked me the other night in Rio, "What are the opportunities for artist?" And I said, "It is the job of an artist to find opportunities!"
[2008]		–––––: Ted Nelson at St. Paul's School, London, 5 Feb 2008
[2008]		–––––: A very general lecture, 17-Mar-2008
[2008]		–––––: Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space
[2009]		–––––: Geeks Bearing Gifts (209 pages) at lulu.com / bei amazon.de
[2009]		–––––: Ted Nelson at 50th reunion at Swarthmore, June 2009
[2009]		–––––: Ted at University of Bologna, 2009.06.26
[2010]		–––––: POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization (380 pages) at lulu.com download, lulu.com printed
[2010]		Possiplex Book Launch at the Internet Archive, Oct 8, 2010
[2011]		–––––: Ted Nelson at The Future of Text, 22-Sep 2011 – (Ted's presentation is between 1:40' - 2:00')
[2011]		–––––: Ted Nelson on the future of text, October 2011
[2012]		–––––: Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology, 22-May-2012 (14' 45") Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightware of Files and Directories, 22-May-2012 (14' 45") Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC, 28-May-2012 (14' 01") Computers for Cynics 3 - Database, 28-May-2012 (13' 35") Computers for Cynics 4 - The Dance of Apple and Microsoft, 28-May-2012 (13' 41") Computers for Cynics 5 - HyperHistory, 28-May-2012 (14' 29") Computers for Cynics 6 - The Real Story of the World Wide Web, 28-May-2012 (13' 06") Computers for Cynics N - Closure: Pay Attentions to the Man Behind the Curtain, 28-May-2012 (11' 13") full version
[2013]		–––––: Ted Nelson at The Future of Text 2013
[2013]		–––––: Ted at Homebrew Computer Club
[2013]		–––––: Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
[2014]		––––– et al.: Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (1 day conferene at Chapman University, 24-Apr-2014)
[8/2014]		Triangulation 164: Ted Nelson
[2015]		–––––: Ted Nelson at The Future of Text 2015
[2015]		–––––: What Box? in Dechow, Struppa (ed): Intertwingled - The Work and Influence of Ted Neslon. Springer Douglas R. Dechow, Daniele C. Struppa: Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson
[2016]		–––––: Two Cheers for Now (45') Web Science Institute, U of Southampton
[2016]		–––––: Norway, Software and Me, Oslo 2015
[2017]		–––––: Ted's Presentation at his 80th Birthday Party ()
[2019]		–––––: Tools & Craft Ted Nelson, Interview by Devin Zuegel
[4/2019]		–––––: There is Too Much to Say and it Goes in all Directions (62')
15-Feb-2019		–––––: Hypercast! An experiment, 2019.02.15
9-Oct-2019		–––––: Xanadu History 1960-2019, 2019.10.09
22-May-2020		Marc Weber, Ted Nelson et al.: Ted explains Xanadu to Marc Weber's seminar
29-May-2020		Conversation between Ted Nelson and Lee Felsenstein :: 20' counter culture \| 24' social internet \| 28' SDS 940 (Engelbart’s SRI computer) \|
Jun 2020		TheTedNelson 2.0 – all tweets by Ted Nelson; captured and looped by mprove

?		–––––: Simplicity Versus Power in User Systems (unpublished, referenced in DM 52)
?		–––––: Errors in "The Curse of Xanadu," by Gary Wolf . ararat^{(June 2001)}
		–––––: Biostrategy and Polymind
<97		–––––: The Checkmate Proposal
?		–––––: WORLD ENOUGH: The Manuscript Edition. Contents^{(June 2001)}
2001		–––––: Home Page of Ted Nelson. xanadu.com.au/ted/, www.hyperland.com
?		–––––: Xanadu Papers, 18 pages
1950s-1980s		Ted Nelson's Junk Mail Cartons collection at Internet Archive, more than 6,000 promotional marketing brochures on computers and office automation

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