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Foundation of Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center

1963
Don Andrews, Bill English, and Doug Engelbart at SRI's Augmentation Research Center during a meeting with sponsors of the program.  Each participant had access to a display and a mouse. 
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Don Andrews, Bill English, and Doug Engelbart at SRI's Augmentation Research Center during a meeting with sponsors of the program.  Each participant had access to a display and a mouse. 

As a result of Engelbart's 1962 report, Augmenting Human Intellect, J. C. R. LickliderOffsite Link, the first director of the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPAOffsite Link) Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), funded Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research CenterOffsite Link at Stanford Research InstituteOffsite Link in early 1963. The first experiments done there included trying to connect a display at SRI to the massive and unique AN/FSQ-32Offsite Link computer at System Development CorporationOffsite Link in Santa Monica, California. This photo was taken in 1969.

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