Christina Engelbart
c-engelbart.bsky.social
Christina Engelbart
@c-engelbart.bsky.social
Director, The Doug Engelbart Institute dougengelbart.org - advancing his considerable legacy and all that inspires - past, present, and future...
Jan 30, 2025 - It's Doug Engelbart's 100th birthday! We're celebrating online free-range style with some gems from his remarkable legacy.
Join Us: dougengelbart.org/Dougs-100th
January 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
#OnThisDay in 1968 Doug Engelbart & team stunned their audience with the Mother of All Demos - the world debut of the mouse, hypermedia, teleconferencing, and MUCH much more, with the lofty goal of augmenting human intellect!

Learn more at dougengelbart.org/Firsts
December 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Celebrate 12/9 #motherofalldemos day (or as Ted Nelson would say #DougEngelbart Day), tripping around *inside* that demo - a special tribute from Bret Victor @worrydream.com and me
Check it out: bit.ly/2ArrN7y
December 10, 2024 at 5:40 PM
#OnThisDay (12/9) in 1968 Doug Engelbart & team presented the Mother of All Demos - a window into the future of modern interactive personal and team computing, with the modest goal of augmenting human intellect!
Watch footage and more dougengelbart.org/theDemo.
December 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Doug Engelbart on IA vs AI: "Payoff will come when we make better use of technology ... to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems." More at the Engelbart Academy dougengelbart.org/Academy
December 2, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Immortal words of Doug Engelbart, from his acceptance speech on receiving the Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Watch the Clip: youtube.com/clip/UgkxnuJ...
More at the Engelbart Academy dougengelbart.org/Academy
December 2, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Reposted by Christina Engelbart
I wrote this 28 years ago and I'm told it is still helpful: The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online

www.rheingold.com/texts/artonl...
rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
www.rheingold.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Christina Engelbart
mathematical modelling has been used to show that misinformation spreads across the internet like a virus spreading through a population.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology
Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge and David Robert Grimes, Trinity College Dublin explain how mathematical modelling has been used to show that misinformation spreads across the intern…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM
The Computer History Museum presented its 2024 Fellow Award Ceremony celebrating Atari co-founders, Jake Feinler of NICs fame (hatched in Doug Engelbart's lab), and Jensen Huang of NVidia @ComputerHistory

Details: computerhistory.org/events/2024-...

(NEW) Watch the Event: youtu.be/JHk_lvy994o
November 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM