What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff · 1 Jan 2005 · 394pp · 108,215 words
political and cultural chaos and in the form of a new wave of skilled software and hardware designers who were drawn to Engelbart’s ideas. Bill Duvall had grown up a couple of miles away from Engelbart’s laboratory. His father was a physicist who worked at SRI. During junior high school
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their owners tended to have a cult devotion to the machines, which were known for their handling prowess in European sports-car rallies. Shortly after Bill Duvall arrived at Engelbart’s lab, he was joined by a young Berkeley physics student who was also looking for a way to avoid the draft
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, albeit this time on one subject. Ultimately, he wrote a five-hundred-page paper describing all kinds of collections of information. It was left to Bill Duvall to write the code to make the concept a reality. He did it by writing a database that made it possible to create a record
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almost two years later. But some people got the idea right away, realizing the network gave them new freedom. By the end of 1969, both Bill Duvall and Don Andrews, the young programmer who had come to Augment from the University of Washington, had independently moved to rural Sonoma County. Neither of
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industrial park. While demonstrators outside the gates of SRI had made an impact on many of the researchers inside, others remained more or less unmoved. Bill Duvall was so deeply involved in the innards of NLS that he barely noticed. He was sitting at his terminal programming when someone said, “The demonstrators
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Research Center (AHIRC). Although it expressed Englebart’s vision precisely, it seemed top-heavy to many of his young researchers. At his low “yoga” workstation, Bill Duvall began flying what amounted to a pirate flag by displaying an abbreviated ARC, for Augmentation Research Center. Finally, after much debate Engelbart agreed to the
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who had been recruited by ARC to spend time in the field teaching NLS to the first commercial users. Ann Weinberg, who would later marry Bill Duvall, was a Stanford graduate student hired by Engelbart. Not long after Weinberg came to ARC, she was sent to Huntsville, Alabama, to train an air
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together a demonstration that offered three separate voices of high-quality digital music—which wasn’t quite enough, but it was a start. That summer, Bill Duvall had come to work for English on the POLOS project and had rewritten the NLS text editor. Kay gradually began to tie everything together into
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words
’80s and for a copy of his unpublished manuscript Re:mindings, which I cite in this chapter. Doug Engelbart sat for an interview in 1999. Bill Duvall, a member of Engelbart’s original team at SRI, also donated his time for an interview in 2011, and provided feedback on the NLS chapter
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Engelbart’s 1968 demo of NLS. But as one of the original members of Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Centre (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute, Bill Duvall, put it in an interview with the author: The one thing I would say – and this isn’t just true about NLS, this is true
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, the system imposed a treelike structure on all content. Though it may seem rigid and modularized at first blush, this structure provided many benefits.4 Bill Duvall, one of the original members of Engelbart’s team at SRI, remembers the hierarchy in our interview: ‘What you would call a paragraph, a “statement
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conception of language, assumed a common stock of conceptions, a common structure radically opposed to personalized side trails. There were many reasons for this, as Bill Duvall remembered in our interview, ‘not the least of which was that a lot of the work was done under government financing, and if you looked
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contemporary hypertext systems (those built with HTML, for example), the links were not part of the architecture; they were a mode of transport. According to Bill Duvall, who designed the software, the linking structure was also separable from the content: it was not embedded in the text like in HTML. ‘The linking
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but that’s where we demonstrated links’ (English 2011). That was in 1965. SRI, meanwhile, began to take notice of their new million-dollar man. Bill Duvall joined SRI in 1966, but didn’t start work on the NLS project until 1968. He remembers reading about Andries van Dam’s HES project
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the dominant paradigm is that some members of Engelbart’s original NLS team jumped across to Xerox PARC11 – among them Bill English, and shortly thereafter, Bill Duvall. According to Nelson, Engelbart still gets upset when he recalls the departure of English in particular: ‘at a dinner a couple of years ago, Doug
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words
, “or we can be arrogant and die.” It is still a fair warning. John Markoff San Francisco, California January 2015 1|BETWEEN HUMAN AND MACHINE Bill Duvall was already a computer hacker when he dropped out of college. Not long afterward he found himself face-to-face with Shakey, a six-foot
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to “bootstrap” their projects by making learning and innovation more powerful. Even if it wasn’t in the mainstream of computer science, the ideas captivated Bill Duvall. Before long he switched his allegiance and moved down the hall to work in Engelbart’s lab. In the space of less than a year
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NLS software in Menlo Park to a computer in Los Angeles controlled by another young hacker via a data line leased from the phone company. Bill Duvall would become the first to make the leap from research to replace humans with computers to using computing to augment the human intellect, and one
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most intimate and powerful augmentation technology. Now he spends his days refining computer vision technologies to fundamentally remake computing in a human-centered way. Like Bill Duvall and Terry Winograd, he has made the leap from AI to IA. 8|“ONE LAST THING” Set on the Pacific Ocean a little more than
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has a simple answer. The solution to the contradiction inherent in AI versus IA lies in the very human decisions of engineers and scientists like Bill Duvall, Tom Gruber, Adam Cheyer, Terry Winograd, and Gary Bradski, who all have intentionally chosen human-centered design. At the dawn of the computing age, Wiener
Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)
by Thierry Bardini · 1 Dec 2000
the beginning of PARC in 1971.7 In fact, some of the earliest members of the ARC laboratory to join P ARC, Bill English and Bill Duvall in 197 I, joined their efforts to cre- ate the PARC On Line Office System (POLOS) with the explicit purpose to im- plement NLS at
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of us appreciated what that would take" (Deutsch 1996). The project to implement NLS or parts of it at PARC was not dead yet, though. Bill Duvall, a former ARC member who had been very instrumental in POLOS, carried on with the implementation of a subset of NLS functions on a single
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flow of information, there would have been a much greater acceptance of it. But there was a prototype buIlt of that technology at PARC by Bill Duvall, it was called UGH.1O It only carried certain of the concepts forward, the simplest ones, basically the structured editing, outline editing, and file management
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and represented SRI and the lab- oratory. Elmer Shapiro at SRI provided an important link between the ARPANET NWG and the laboratory. In April 1969, Bill Duvall wrote RFC 0002 entitled "Host Software" and discussed "the various types of Links, in- cluding Control, Primary, and Auxiliary Links" (S. Crocker, in RFC 1000
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ways and developing in other directions. In 1969-70, all but one of the seven RFCs authored by ARC members were devoted to technical questions: Bill Duvall, Elmer Shapiro, Jeff Rulifson, John Melvin, and Bill English contributed on various issues related to the network implementation, in parallel with their contributions to the
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the time of the wrIting of RFC 3, accordIng to Crocker, the Network Working Group "seemed to consist" of Steve Carr (Utah), Jeff Rulifson and Bill Duvall (SRI), and Steve Crocker and Gerard Deloche (UCLA). The distribution list of the RFCs also Included Bob Kahn (BBN), Larry Roberts (ARPA), and Ron Stoughton
Dealers of Lightning
by Michael A. Hiltzik · 27 Apr 2000 · 559pp · 157,112 words
-designer (with Tesler) of the Notetaker portable computer Bill English, head of POLOS (PARC On-Line Office System) group, early but unsuccessful multimedia office network Bill Duvall, chief designer of POLOS David Liddle, head of System Development Division after 1978, supervisor of the development of the Xerox Star, first fully realized commercial
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by their first meetings with the charismatic Doug Engelbart and who regarded his vision with an almost religious awe. “He not only made sense,” recalled Bill Duvall, one of the early disciples. “It was like someone turning on a light. Love at first sight is perhaps the wrong term to use, but
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mere mortals would be able to do with the system.” Instead they had produced a system bewilderingly technical and counterintuitive. English and his software chief, Bill Duvall, had faithfully reproduced Engelbart’s system of “structured text” in which every line and paragraph of a file incorporated reference pointers to other pertinent text
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the interview.’ And I didn’t.” The interview was with Bill English. As usual, English was in desperate search of engineers to help him and Bill Duvall complete POLOS. Fairbairn spent three years entangled in POLOS hardware implementing the terminal system, which meant bringing together the TV display, keyboard, and mouse. (The
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, David K. Biegelson, Daniel G. Bobrow, David R. Boggs, John Seely Brown, Stuart K. Card, Wesley A. Clark, Lynn Conway, Rigdon Currie, L. Peter Deutsch, Bill Duvall, Jerome I. Elkind, John Ellenby, William English, Douglas Fairbairn, Edward R. Fiala, Charles M. Geschke, Adele Goldberg, Marian Goldeen, Jacob E. Goldman, Laura Gould, William
Possiplex
by Ted Nelson · 2 Jan 2010
text documents could be compared side by side, to see what contents they shared (transclusion). BILL DUVALL TRIES IT AND DISCOVERS-EDITING BY POINTERS IS EFFICIENT! ca 1975 Much later (in the 1990s) I heard from Bill Duvall, a pioneer with Engelbart's group, that he had tested this method of editing text by
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care I knew it could be done, and that was my intent. *Bring it all in, swap it around, then read it out again. See Bill Duvall’s vindication of the method, 1978. This required completely different approaches to text handling from what was conventional. Others told me this was crazy, “That
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approach, used by JOT, newly-typed material is permanently stored in mass memory, and the document is edited as pointers to the stored material. (See Bill Duvall’s validation and endorsement of this internal method, 1978.) CAL DANIELS Working for Cass-O-Matic was a swell fellow named Cal Daniels, who knew
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing)
by Douglas R. Dechow · 2 Jul 2015 · 223pp · 52,808 words
the computing mainstream, what he was doing was not seen as “science” back then either. As the Head of Engineering at SRI told a young Bill Duvall (and Duvall later recounted to me), “You don’t really think what they’re doing up there is science, do you?” (Duvall 2011, personal communication
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon · 1 Jan 1996 · 352pp · 96,532 words
of Berkeley researchers, later to be sold under the SDS nameplate. As a result, it was far more fun to program than the Sigma-7. Bill Duvall, an SRI researcher, spent about a month writing a clever program for the 940 that essentially fooled it into thinking it was communicating not with
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years
by Tom Standage · 14 Oct 2013 · 290pp · 94,968 words
,” which would enable Kline to log into the Stanford computer from his terminal at the UCLA computer. At about 9:30 P.M. Kleinrock called Bill Duvall, a young programmer at Stanford, to say that they were ready to begin the test. Kline typed an “L” on his terminal. Over the phone
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · 4 Apr 2016 · 523pp · 143,139 words
Internet were, somehow fittingly, much humbler and more inauspicious than all of that. It was October 29, 1969, and Charley Kline at UCLA sent to Bill Duvall at the Stanford Research Institute the first message ever transmitted from one computer to another via the ARPANET. The message was “login”—or would have
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
by James Ball · 19 Aug 2020 · 268pp · 76,702 words
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
by M. Mitchell Waldrop · 14 Apr 2001
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words