Doug Engelbart Institute
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Computer Science Design Electrical Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science Industrial Design Industrial Engineering Information Systems Information Technology Mechanical Engineering Software Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Community - General |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Organization:Bootstrap Institute - BI |
| Description: | "The Doug Engelbart Institute* was conceived by Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart as a vehicle for broad-based collaboration to explore how we can dramatically boost our ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale collectively. 1a Simply put, our mission is to inspire, demonstrate and propogate breakthrough strategies, organizing principles, best practices, and open source tools for boosting the Collective IQ of teams, organizations, networked initiatives, and even whole nations; to cultivate an active collaborative network of participants from a cross-section of disciplines and sectors engaging in cross-cutting hands-on participatory initiatives via our interactive website; to foster pilot trials in partner organizations; to facilitate the incorporation of resulting open source tools into mainstream software; and to make the work broadly available through the web, through publications, gatherings, workshops, presentations and consulting. Ultimately the Institute seeks to promote an international alliance of stakeholders engaging in this work.1b The stratetic principles underlying this work are based on Doug's lifelong vision for bootstrapping our Collective IQ for rapidly increasing learning, innovation and effectiveness at solving important problems. Many of these organizing principles were embedded in his legendary research lab at SRI, which was responsible for more breakthrough innovation than probably any other lab before or since." |
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| Keywords: | Engelbart computer mouse innovation bootstrap |
| Has Components: |
A lifetime pursuit - from a biographical sketch of Douglas C. Engelbart |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
Creative Thinking (c) Design a system, component, or process |
| Use of Resource: |
Inspirational technical leader with a vision to improve the human condition using good technology design. Quote from the site: "The National Medal of Technology, the highest award in its class in the United States. On December 1, 2000. The White House bestowed the medal on Douglas Engelbart essentially for his technological achievements, including the invention of the computer mouse. Still to be recognized is that Engelbart's technological career is but part of a humanitarian career. His dream is to get society to buy into a means of boosting its ability to successfully cope with complex and urgent problems." |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
High |
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| Publication Date: | November 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://dougengelbart.org/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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