History of Computing — 8

//These are some unfinished notes from the history of computing class. They’ve been lying around in my drafts for a very long time and I thought I should just push them out. They don’t make much sense though. I’m hoping to fill in some more details later.//

Today’s speaker is Ray Ozzie. He’s going to talk about collaborative software.

Some guy who’s name I couldn’t get invented the plasma panel and also the first version of a touch screen. Motivated by computers for education, not really a computer scientist, just an eccentric. The terminal was called PLATO IV.

Ozzie’s slides are pretty interesting because they don’t contain any text. Almost each slide is simply an image, while he talks through the context and the anecdote behind the image.

Ted Nelson authored two (comic?) books called “Computer Lib” and “Dream Machines”. He was also the author of Hypertext.