Interface

Interface

1. idea

   • Bush inspires through Memex
     • Licklider
       • visions of thinking center and Man-Computer Symbiosis
     • Sutherland
       • Sketchpad
     • Engelbart
       • Mother of All Demos
         • Engelbart's team join Xerox PARC
           • Alan Kay envisions making NLS a reality
             • creates Smalltalk
             • Steve Jobs visits
               • First Macintosh releases
                 • platform expands
                   • new ideas develop such as PowerPoint which comes from the early PARC prototypes
                     • Comapnies like Google, Microsoft drive engineering if interfaces
                       • early 2000s- rapid development of capactive touchscreens-smartphones are introduced
                         • Reflection: one vision is powerful to catalyze the whole world's computer experience
                     • ACM Symposium conference
                       • basic paradigms of GUI
                       • invent human computer interaction ways
             • develops Alto in mid 1970s
               • 1st OS based GUI
               • WYSIWYG word processing
               • email client
               • vector graphics editor
               • multi-player video game
       • founds Augmentation Research Center
         • prototyped NLS or oN-Line System
           • features
             • networking
             • windows
             • hypertext
             • graphics
             • mouse
             • command input
             • file version control
             • text editing
             • video conferencing

2. Babbage

   • Analytical Engine(AE)
     • Bush is inspired
   • mentors
     • Lovelace
       • algorithms of AE