American engineer, inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer (1925-2013) who is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in the creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at the now-historic The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Rare signed book: Evolving Collective Intelligence by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg. Limited BETA edition, numbered 1/200. Self-published in 2008. Softcover, 6 x 8.75, 88 pages. Signed on the title page in black ink, "Doug E., 4 Dec. 08." In very good to fine condition, with staining to the edges of the cover and some interior pages.
Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg worked with Engelbart for six years to write two books. Only 200 copies of the first book, Evolving Collective Intelligence, were distributed to the community for feedback at the 2008 Program for the Future Conference at The Tech Museum in San Jose, California. The second book, a limited edition of The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart, was published after incorporating feedback.
Doug Engelbart coined the term Collective IQ as a measure of how well people can work together on important challenges – how quickly and intelligently they can anticipate or respond to a situation, leveraging their collective perception, memory, insight, vision, planning, reasoning, foresight, and experience into applicable knowledge. Collective IQ is ultimately a measure of effectiveness.
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