grlloyd

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   by grlloyd 14y ago

   I think the trail led from Doug Engelbart and folk who were directly or indirectly influenced by his 1968 Demo as well as Ted Nelson and Computer Lib / Literary Machines. Doug donated his personal copy of "As We May Think" with marginal not
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   by grlloyd 14y ago

   Doug Engelbart Institute posted a link to videos and transcripts of the Oct 1995 Brown / MIT Vannevar Bush symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of AWMT: "As We May Think: A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision, An Examination of
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   by grlloyd 14y ago

   AWMT was certainly a hot topic and required course reading from 1968 on... I was a student of Andy van Dam's in that era and early user of the Hypertext Editing System developed at Brown with Ted Nelson. Certainly for Intermedia and Nelson'
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   by grlloyd 14y ago

   "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century" (1999 MIT Press)is an excellent biography of Bush by G. Pascal Zachary.