On December 9, 2008 at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, SRI International commemorated the 40th anniversary of the world debut of personal and interactive computing by Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the SRI Augmentation Research Center (ARC).

On December 9, 1968, Engelbart and his team debuted the computer mouse, which controlled a networked computer system to demonstrate hypertext linking, real-time text editing, multiple windows with flexible view control, cathode display tubes, and shared-screen teleconferencing. This "mother of all demos", as it has since been dubbed, was presented live to a packed house at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, California.

Speakers at the 2008 event included original participants in the 1968 demo and presentations on Doug Engelbart's vision to use computing to augment society's collective intellect and ability to solve the complex issues of our time. Learn more about the 40th anniversary event.

You can also watch the event video.

Robert Sproull, Vice President and Fellow, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, and the event moderator, welcomes the audience.	Charles House, Executive Director, Media X at Stanford University (the event host sponsor) introduced the showing of highlights from the 1968 demo.	Robert Sproull with SRI principals of the 1968 demo Don Andrews, William English, Bill Paxton, Jeff Rulifson, and a member of the 1968 audience, Andries van Dam. The panel relived the events that led up to the demo, the dramatic day itself, and its impact.
Daniel Borel, co-founder and Board Member of Logitech, talks about the global impact Engelbart's work has made for the device manufacturer. On December 9, 2008, Logitech (premier sponsor of the SRI event) announced shipment of its billionth mouse.	Christina Engelbart, executive director of the Doug Engelbart Institute, discusses her father's driving vision.	John Markoff (right), senior writer, The New York Times, interviews Robert W. Taylor, a former program director at the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA). While at ARPA, Taylor provided some of the earliest funding of Doug Engelbart's work at SRI.
Alan Kay, president of Viewpoints Research Institute, talks about the significance of Doug Engelbart's vision.	Doug Engelbart says thank you at the event's end...	...and receives a standing ovation, as he did at the 1968 demo.