Skills: noneConcepts: pre Internet tools, key contributions to the development of the Internet, stages of invention (vision, engineering prototype, product, ubiquitous product), collaboration in other species

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Tools for communication and collaboration

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology (communication)– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Lascaux Caves15,000 years ago

What new tool did they use for communication and coordination?

Can you identify these tools for communication and collaboration?

Hieroglyphic writing Phonetic writing Gutenberg press

Electronic telegraph

Chappe’s semaphore telegraph

Telephone

Punch card storage

Morse code Greek torches

Vannevar Bush, the vision

Vannevar Bush Artist’s conception of a “memex”

Doug Engelbart, the research prototype

• The mouse• Hyperlinks• Video conferencing• WYSIWYG word processor• Multi-window user interface• Shared documents• Shared database• Documents with images & text• Keyword search• Instant messaging• Synchronous collaboration• Asynchronous collaboration• Chord keyboard

The Demo, 1968

Clip 2: Vision of the futureClip 3: Word processingClip 8: GraphicsClip 12: MouseClip 25, 26: Collaboration and windowed user interface

http://bit.ly/SQx8VX

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.

What will on-line interactive communities be like? ... They will be communities not of common location, but of common interest.

Licklider and Taylor, 1968JCR Licklider

Robert Taylor

ARPANET1969

1986 1991

NSFNet – the start of ubiquity

Today

Our latest tool for collaboration -- the Internet

Vision … Engineering prototype … Useful tool … Ubiquitous tool

Can you identify these stages for other inventions, for example the airplane?

Humpback whales use language to collaborate

Summary

Self-study questions

Research and briefly describe each of the tools illustrated in slide 4.

We described the contributions of a number of Internet pioneers – it is not possible to credit any one of them as the sole inventor of the Internet. Samuel Morse is often credited with the invention of the telegraph – was he the sole inventor of the telegraph? (Explain)

We focused on the Internet as a general collaboration tool – what are some of the specific Internet applications we use for communication and collaboration?

ResourcesCommunication using torches in ancient Greece:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Communication.htm

Chappe’s semaphore telegraph:http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/images/history/chappe.html

About hunting by humpback whales:http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/feb/20/nature-ocean-giants-deep-thinkers/

The evolution of writing systems:http://www.ancientscripts.com/

As we may think, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/

Licklider and Taylor: The Computer as a Communication Device, 1968.http://memex.org/licklider.pdf

The Demo, Doug Engelbart:http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html