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What about Stanford Research Institute??? "Later in the 1970s, Engelbart lost his key engineers to Xerox PARC lab, a lavish and well-funded research center a f
by matesz 4y ago
What about Stanford Research Institute???
"Later in the 1970s, Engelbart lost his key engineers to Xerox PARC lab, a lavish and well-funded research center a few miles away. At the head was Alan Kay, 15 years Engelbart’s junior—an upbeat, brilliant guy who knew how to inspire people. The laboratory chief was Engelbart’s former funder from ARPA, Robert Taylor. For Engelbart, networks had always been an inextricable part of his vision. But under Kay’s direction, the engineers created a personal computer, geared toward individual productivity rather than collaboration. Their software included more user-friendly versions of a few of Engelbart’s original ideas, including multiple windows, text with integrated graphics, and the mouse. A cruel joke of the time was that Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Center had been a training program for PARC." [1]
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-invented-future-180967498/#:~:text=Later%20in%20the,program%20for%20PARC https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-....
- mistrial9 4y agorelated (and more true than ever?) http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
- w10-1 4y agoSRI did a boatload of work: USPS zip code automation, BART cards, ATM's, distributed enterprise computing in the 1980's, etc. Unlike its peers, it kept defense contracts below roughly 40% of its overall business. Even PARC was mostly awash in DARPA funds.