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About Us : Advisory Board
Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart invented much of modern interactive computing as we know it, including the mouse, word processing and hypertext.
Doug on the Hyperwords Project: “I honestly think that you are the first person I know that is expressing the kind of appreciation for the special role which IT can (no, will) play in reshaping the way we can symbolize basic concepts to elevate further the power that conditioned humans can derive from their genetic sensory, perceptual and cognitive capabilities.”
InvisibleRevolution.net - Bootstrap.org.
Vint Cerf
Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.
Cerf is the codesigner of the TCP/IP protocol, the communications protocol that gave birth to the Internet and which is commonly used today.
Vint on the Hyperwords Project: “This project is born out of a realizing that the increased digitizing of our world offers both an opportunity and a challenge. As all media enter into the Internet and World Wide Web environments, we need vastly improved infrastructure to manage, link, search, extract, and understand the Niagara of information pouring into the net. The hyperword concept offers an opportunity to harness the information inherent in the net in a far more automatic fashion. Not requiring that links be solely generated by manual effort, hyperwords can automatically stitch meaning into any and all documents. This is still very much an experimental idea. Ambiguity will be a major challenge to overcome, for example. Nonetheless, I think this out of the box concept is well worth exploring and strongly endorse the efforts put forward in this proposal to do just that.”
global.mci.com/us/enterprise/insight/cerfs_up
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson invented the term "hypertext" in 1965, and is a pioneer of information technology. He also coined the words transclusion and intertwingularity.
Nelson is currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, and a philosopher who works in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces. He founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating such a system on a computer network, further documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines.
Ted on the Hyperwords Project: “Hyperwords breaks the iron prison of the web browser.”
ted.hyperland.com
Bruce Horn
Bruce Horn was responsible for a number of the key aspects of the original Macintosh.
At Apple, Bruce was responsible for the design and implementation of the Finder, the type/creator metadata mechanism for files and applications, and the Resource Manager (which handled reading and writing of the resource fork in files). The Dialog Manager and the multi-type aspect of the clipboard also appeared thanks to Bruce.
ingenuitysoftware.com
Dave Farber
Dave has been called the grandfather of the internet.
His influence and earnest work is seen everywhere. David Farber is the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
From 2000 to 2001, he served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. His background includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, University of California at Irvine and the University of Delaware.
cis.upenn.edu/~farber
Steve Schmidt
Steve Schmidt has over 20 years of experience in the commercial software industry, including positions in software development, customer support, engineering management, marketing, and sales. Prior to founding eJobShop in 1998, as VP of Marketing for embedded software firm Microtec, Steve lead its early entry into the Java market. Steve has lived on both US coasts as well as in Asia and Europe, and holds engineering and business degrees from Stanford University.
ejobshop.com
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