Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 445.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: "Charles Ess" <cmess@lib.drury.edu> (22)
Subject: Ephilosopher
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (31)
Subject: hypertext: remembering and celebrating origins
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:00:10 +0000
From: "Charles Ess" <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: new on WWW: Ephilosopher
Announcement: Ephilosopher.com has officially launched!
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Best regards,
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Founder and Editor in Chief
www.ephilosopher.com
Email: Paul_Neufeld@brown.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:01:33 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: hypertext: remembering and celebrating origins
Humanists with interest in hypertext may want to take a look at online
material relating to two symposia convened to remember and celebrate the
origins of hypertextual computing and related subjects:
(1) Englebart's Unfinished Revolution, A Symposium at Stanford University,
December 9, 1998, with streaming video of the event, at
<http://unrev.stanford.edu/>. "On December 9th, 1998 Stanford University
Libraries and the Institute for the Future presented a day-long, public
symposium that brought together [Douglas] Engelbart and members of his
historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the
impact of Engelbart's work on the last three decades of the computer
revolution, to explore the challenges facing us today, and to speculate
about the next three decades." Englebart's "inquiries into 'Augmented Human
Intellect' led to a revolutionary vision of the computer [which he and his
team demonstrated by showing for the first time] the computer mouse,
graphical user interface, display editing and integrated text and graphics,
hyper-documents, and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces.
These concepts and technologies were to become the cornerstones of modern
interactive computing." A number of interesting people say some quite
interesting things.
(2) Vannevar Bush Symposium, sponsored by Brown University and MIT, 12-13
October 1995, summarised and discussed in an article by Rosemary Simpson,
Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and Andries van Dam, for which an extensive
extract is given
at <http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html>. The
entire article, published in ACM Interactions, is accessible at
<<http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/interactions/1996-3-2/p47-simpson/>.
Yours,
WM
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