Doug Engelbart 85th birthday is January 30

Happy birthday Douglas Engelbart.

We hosted a glorious 85th birthday celebration at The Tech Museum in San Jose.
We provided a white limo for Doug and Karen Engelbart

Where a few hundred of Doug’s friends and family greeted him. Like George Bailey, (reference to the film “It’s a Wonderful Life”) Doug Engelbart may just be the richest man in town.

(Photo courtesy of Dustin Jensen)

People came from near and far, young and old, to celebrate an honor this prophetic thinker.

Including Egyptian inventor Cherif Algreatly and special guest philanthropist Ihab Elsamannoudi who flew in from Dubai to attend the event. (Photo by Dustin Jensen shown from left to right: Cherif Algreatly, Douglas Engelbart, Karen Engelbart, Ihab, Basil Elway, Valerie Landau)

A good time was had by all

Blanca Gonzalez and the Amazing Dandara share birthday greetings with Doug.
(Photo courtesy of courtesy of Blue Oxen Associates and photographer Eugene Chan )

Steve Wozniak and Engelbart enjoyed the 85th birthday confetti. (Photo by Dustin Jensen)

The Tech Museum provided Douglas Engelbart, Steve Wozniak, and Bill English the opportunity to pose on the set of the Star Trek exhibit. If only these three were at the helm of Spaceship Earth.
(Photo directed by Eugene Kim and posted courtesy of Blue Oxen Associates and photographer Eugene Chan )

Guests enjoyed music and dancing, cake, and champagne,

but most of all we enjoyed coming together to celebrate the life of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century.

Ted Nelson, Joy Tang, Professor Brian Fisher, and Eileen Clegg joined us via video to pass on birthday greetings from afar. Nicole Landau videotaped the event

The Engelbart History mural and book “The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart on display

(Photo courtesy of Blue Oxen Associates and photographer Eugene Chan )

Engelbart’s children and grandchildren came to honor him.

The Tech Museum and TipTap.mobi hosted the party with help from generous sponsors

Fenwick and West

Valley Zen

NextNow Collaboratory and NextPress

NextNow Network founder, Bill Daul, and NextNow Collaboratory founder, Claudia Welss, with Jahn Ballard

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Blue Oxen Associates

Charles Irby

And anonymous donors

Special thanks to my family and friends who volunteered in to make the event an tremendous success despite the shoestring budget
Nina Serrano
Laura Star Malone
Blanca Gonzalez
The Amazing Dandara

(Evan Schaffer, The Amazing Dandara, Valerie Landau, and Professor Alma Cervantes)

Camilo Landau, who learned to play the accordion to honor Doug with a Hambo (see his comment below)
Rock Star Engineer and Musician TipTap.mobi’s own Eric Matsuno with Instructional Designer Angelica Matsuno and Web Developer Matt Gates

Nicole Landau

Photographer Dustin Jensen
Molly McGee
Inventor Cherif Algreatly
Basil Elway
Karen Engelbart

AND The wonderful staff at The Tech Museum: Roqua Montez, Robert Stephenson and Robert Ketner who facilitated video greetings from around the world.

The video greetings reminded us of how Engelbart

Bob Ketner and The Tech Museum bring in video greetings from afar.

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Guests as Doug Engelbart's birthday celebration

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Download the pdf of “The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in Conversation with Douglas Engelbart $5 via paypal
or read it online on the blog Engelbartbookdialogues

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