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SRI International Celebrates 50th Anniversary of "The Mother of All Demos" - and Looks Toward the Future of Breakthrough Innovation in Human-Computer InteractionMENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the "Mother of All Demos" -- the world debut of personal and interactive computing. On December 9, 1968, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, SRI engineer Doug Engelbart was met with a standing ovation when he gave the first public demonstration of the computer mouse and many key fundamentals of modern computing that ushered in the Information Age. Engelbart and his SRI team debuted numerous—and now ubiquitous—technology innovations, including hypertext linking, multiple windows with flexible view control, real-time on-screen text editing, shared-screen teleconferencing, and the computer mouse. Engelbart envisioned harnessing the power of computers as tools for collaboration and the augmentation of our collective intelligence to work on humanity's most important problems. The demonstration was the first to show how a computer could be used as a tool to capture and share knowledge on a vast scale, a new and revolutionary idea at the time. The computer mouse was an important part of a much larger system to facilitate organizatioal learning and collaboration. It was the first public demonstration of a real-time collaborative environment between two computer users. Looking Forward to the Next 50 Years Today, projects across SRI build on the "Mother of All Demos" themes of augmenting human capabilities. Researchers are focused on developing technology that can improve human sensing, learning, and collaboration. Projects include:
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