1. The iPad is 40 Years Old
40 Years of Invention, Development
& Commercialization of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
and the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Copyright © Arnold Wasserman 2010

2. “The Mother of All Demos”
Doug Engelbart, SRI
The computer mouse
San Francisco
and pointer cursor
Display editing
Dec. 9, 1968 Direct object manipulation
Outline processing
Integrated text and graphics
Multiple remote online
users of a networked
processor
"Linking" and in-file object
addressing
Multiple windowing
Graphical user interface
Hypermedia
Context-sensitive help

3. Two-way Videoconferencing
With Shared Workspaces
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html#complete

4. Engelbart's
Unfinished
Revolution
A Symposium at Stanford
University
Dec 9, 2008
Mural: Co-Evolution of
Human Systems &
Tool Systems:
http://programforthefuture.org/about-us/Engelbart-Mural.jpg/image_view_fullscreen

5. “The best way to predict the futureuture
is to create it.”
Alan Kay’s keen observations of
kids at play in the late 1960s and
early ‘70s led to foundational
developments of personal
computing, including object oriented
programming, the graphical user
interface and portability.

6. “A computer should be as easy to use as
an Etch-a-Sketch”
1968

7. Alan Kay’s Dynabook
First sketches and mockups, 1968,69,70

8. XEROX Alto 1980
XEROX PARC
Palo Alto
Research Center

9. Apple Macintosh
1984

10. Microsoft Windows
1985

11. Apple “Knowledge Navigator”
Simulation
1987
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5144094928842683632&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px
allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed>

12. Apple Newton/MessagePad
1993

13. iPod + iTunes
2001 – 2010

14. iMac G5
2004

15. HP Compaq
Tablet Pc
2006

16. iPhone
2007

17. Interactive Multi-touch Gestural
Interfaces: 1969 – 2010
http://link.brightcove.com/services/
player/bcpid713271701?
bclid=713073346&bctid=709364416

18. DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION
GEO-SPACIAL COMMAND & CONTROL
BROADCAST
STORYBOARDING, IDEATION
MEDICAL
INFORMATION
VISUALIZATION,
EXPLORATION
FINANCE, MUSEUM EXHIBITION,
ENTERTAINMENT, ETC.

19. Augmented Reality 1957 – 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9KPJlA5yds&feature=related

20. Augmented Reality for iPhone
2010

21. Video-Call iPhone
2010

22. Apple iPad
2010
40 Years
Later