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Save the date!
December
9, 1968 (30 years ago) -- In a wild San Francisco event that
looks more like a trippy rock concert than the dawning of an epoch,
Doug Engelbart gives the first public demonstration of innovations
that will launch the Personal Computing Revolution -- windows,
hyperlinks, the graphical user interface, networking, bit-mapping,
in-file object addressing and the mouse, among others. Newsweek's
Steven Levy later called it "the Mother of All Demos."
December 9, 1998 (3 weeks from Wednesday) -- "Engelbart's Unfinished
Revolution." On the 30th anniversary of Engelbart's 1968 demonstration,
Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archive and Paul Saffo's
Institute for the Future (IFTF) sponsor a day-long symposium at
Stanford's Memorial Auditorium. This event brings together many of the
central figures in the history and future of personal computing
and the Internet -- all of them deeply influenced by Doug's work
-- to examine what has happened since December 9, 1968, and explore
the promise of the next 30 years.
Confirmed
speakers and panelists at "Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" include:
- Doug Engelbart
- Marc Andreessen - co-founder of Netscape; developer of the first commercially successful Web browser
- Stewart Brand - founder of The WELL; publisher of Whole Earth Catalogue; founder of the Long Now Foundation
- Rick Drexler - chair of the Foresight Institute; MIT; pioneer of nanotechnology, the study of molecular machines
- Alan Kay - founding principal of Xerox PARC; member of ARPA group that developed the Internet
- Jaron Lanier - father of virtual reality; historian; opera composer
- John Markoff -senior Silicon Valley correspondent, The New York Times
- Ted Nelson - software visionary; director, HyperLab
- Howard Rheingold - co-founder, Electric Minds; author; journalist
- Andy van Dam - computer graphics and word processing pioneer; co-founder of Brown University's computer sciences department
- Terry Winograd - Stanford University professor; pioneer of human/computer interaction & computer-based collaborative systems
Moderator
for the day will be IFTF Director Paul Saffo.
Speakers and
moderator are available for media interviews, as are officials
of the Stanford Silicon Valley Archive, which is working to raise
consciousness about the importance of placing significant Information
Age papers in permanent, professionally managed archives.
Sponsors of
this summit-meeting of the minds are BancBoston Robertson Stephens,
IBM, Logitech, Sun Microsystems and the Stanford Council on Library
and Information Resources. Supporters include SRI International, Digital Persona, Herman Miller,
Inc., The Industry Standard and Phase Two Strategies.
General-admission
tickets to the full-day event are priced at $10 for students and
$20 for the general public, and include a boxed lunch. Tickets
go on sale Monday, November 9, through the Stanford University
Ticket Office (at 650-725-ARTS or http://tickets.stanford.edu).
For more information
about "Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" and the Stanford Silicon
Valley Archive, please visit http://unrev.stanford.edu
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS
Call or email
either contact below to arrange complimentary passes to this event.
Steven J. Fielding
Phase Two Strategies
Voice Direct: (415) 772-8451
email: steven_fielding@p2pr.com
Erik Schmollinger
Phase Two Strategies
Voice Direct: (415) 772-8437
email: erik_schmollinger@p2pr.com
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