Talk:The Mother of All Demos

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I'm sorry, but what "references" should an article like this site?

Is the question about whether it is really referred to as "the mother of all demos"? You should probably just do a google search if you're in doubt. Or, better yet, look at the ACM History web site -- I believe they explicitly refer to this as "the mother of all demos."

[edit] Original name?

Since the "Mother of All Demos" term wasn't used until the 1990s, what was the demo previously referred to? What was it titled or listed as when originally given? Pimlottc (talk) 19:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

The formal name of the session / paper is: Engelbart, D. & English, W. (1968). A research center for augmenting human intellect. AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference. p. 295-410 (I'll add this to the main article - good catch). Informal references to the demo that I recall (or used) include: "Engelbart's demo", "Engelbart's 1968 demo", "Engelbart's FJCC demo". At the time, the Spring and Fall Joint Computer Conferences (SJCC, FJCC) were biggest computing research events with widely published proceedings, so "Engelbart's 1968 FJCC demo" might be the most common informal citation used in research papers or news articles ... --Grlloyd (talk) 10:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)