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The Mother of all Tech Demos continues to resonate in the computing industry, decades after it started a graphical revolution. On this day in technology and business history... On Dec. 9, 1968, a ...

At Facebook’s F8 conference, head of product Chris Cox warmed my heart by talking at length about the “mother of all demos,” the astonishing presentation which Douglas Engelbart gave at a San Franciso ...

This week marked the anniversary of a groundbreaking 1968 lecture by computer pioneer Doug Engelbart and colleagues at SRI International, that changed the lives of those that were there, and even ...

Douglas Engelbart died this week. But his most iconic idea lives on. The venerable computer mouse, originally prototyped as a pine box with three buttons and metal wheels, was dreamed up by Englebart ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

The evolution of graphical user interfaces parallels the evolution of computing technology itself. As computers grow more powerful and sophisticated, so does their ability to display cutting-edge ...

Here’s the reason, courtesy of a concept drawing from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where the graphical user interface was invented, and where Steve Jobs was introduced to the concept that was to ...

Jonathan Roberts receives funding from AHRC, EPSRC. The arrival of Microsoft Windows 95 on August 24 1995 brought about a desktop PC boom. With an easier and more intuitive graphical user interface ...

User interfaces on many products such as mobile phones, MP3 players, portable games, and industrial and in-home control monitors are becoming ever more visually and graphically interactive. Graphical ...