The click heard round the world

Article Abstract:

Doug Engelbart, an obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute tells what it felt like to launch the point-and-click revolution 15 years before the Mac. The concept of interactive computing was tried at Engelbart's lab, the Augmentation Research Center at SRI in Menlo Park.

Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Engelbart, Douglas, SRI International

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First blood

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The efforts of Nathan Wolfe, a scientist from the University College of Los Angeles, to prevent the spread of those diseases from the inhabitants of the African jungles to other parts of the world are described.

Africa, Prevention, Epidemics, Wolfe, Nathan

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The origin of Darwin

Article Abstract:

The details of visit of Edward O. Wilson, famed Harvard evolutionary biologist, to the New York's American Museum of Natural History and his views on origin of Charles Darwin are discussed.

New York, History, Biography, Exhibitions, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Wilson, Edward O., Darwin, Charles, American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)

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