meanderings

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THE DEMO
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration ....This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. "

Labels: incunabula, innovation, mouse, word processer

posted by jhave at 3/08/2007 12:50:00 PM   

"Semantic Nets" were first invented for computers by Richard H. Richens of the Cambridge Language Research Unit in 1956 as an "interlingua" for machine translation of natural languages.
[Wikipedia]

Labels: innovation, linguistics, semantics

posted by jhave at 3/08/2007 12:15:00 PM   

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