Fall 1996 Lecture Series

"People have estimated that several trillion dollars of GNP came out of this few hundred million dollars of funding over this decade which was cut short by Congress in 1970. Most of the technologies we have today came out of this eight year funding. There hasn't been any funding like this since then. These technologies are almost used up now."

Alan Kay on Public funding of research during the 60s

Douglas Engelbart - The list of inventions and scientific breakthroughs created by Engelbart is the foundation of contemporary computer technology: the mouse, interactive hyperlinking, and word processing.

Ted Nelson - Electronic publishing evangelist, Ted Nelson is the author of the underground cult classic ComputerLib/Dream Machines, and the man who coined the term 'hypertext'.

Alan Kay - Alan Kay is chief scientist of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and principle orchestrator of the world's first personal computer.