Education: the Unfinished Revolution Andries van Dam Brown University Web: http://www.cs.brown.edu/ Web: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~avd/ Email: avd@cs.brown.edu presented at Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution A Symposium at Stanford University December 9, 1998 Paul Saffo's Introduction of Andy I was talking with a gentleman physicist named Edward Teller and he told me that there was something about Hungary. Turned out that there was one high school that a disproportionately large number of scientists who were on the Manhattan project came from. One wonders what was going on in Hungary at the time. Well, one wonders what was going on at Swarthmore College in the early 1960s because both Ted Nelson and our next presenter, Andy van Dam, both were at Swarthmore at the same time and both have had fascinating collaborations over the years. Andy is currently, and has been for some time, the T. J. Watson Professor of Technology and Education and a professor of Computer Science at Brown University, a department that he helped to establish. Like Ted, he is fascinatingly visionary, he has pushed farther on the edges of hypermedia and education than anyone else. He has one disqualification, however, for being a true visionary - he can actually complete
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Education: the unfinished revolution
van Dam, Andries
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