Editing Augmentation Research Center (section)

==Beginnings==
Some early ideas by [[Douglas Engelbart]] were developed in 1959 funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (now [[Rome Laboratory]]).<ref name="work86">{{cite book |date= June 1986 |publisher= ACM |pages= 73–83|location= Palo Alto, California |author= Douglas C. Englebart |title= Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the history of personal workstations |chapter= The augmented knowledge workshop |isbn= 0-89791-176-8 |doi= 10.1145/12178.12184 |chapter-url= http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-101931.html |access-date= April 20, 2011 |doi-access= free }}</ref> They focused on methods of improving human intellectual capacity through the use of computers, specifically using interactivity. Ideas proposed center on aligning computer interfaces with the human brain by using displays and "other transducers".<ref name=":0">Engelbart,     D. C. (1958-1986). Journals. Engelbart (Douglas C.) papers (M0638), Green     Library Special Collections (Box 1A), Stanford, CA, United States</ref> Further refinement of these ideas led to a March 10, 1960 essay ''Man-Machine Intelligent-Team Research'' where Engelbart breaks human cognition into "Activity Units", with an information-handling and materials-handling facility. He envisions information and material/objects freely flowing in and out, with a constant exchange of information between facilities. Engelbart takes this idea of "Activity Units" and made an expended functional model for implementation into a computer, looping into his cognition theory processors, displays, storage, and other discrete components.<ref name=":1">Engelbart,     D. C. (1960-1974). Misc. Memoranda, Notes, Reports. Engelbart (Douglas C.)     papers (M0638), Green Library Special Collections (Box 40, Folder 4),     Stanford, CA, United States</ref> By October, 1962, a finalized framework document titled ''Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework'' was published which fully defined his theories dating back to a 1959 collection of notes.<ref>{{cite web |title= Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework |author= Douglas C. Engelbart |date= October 1962 |work= SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223; SRI Project No. 3578 |url= http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html |access-date= April 20, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110504035147/http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html |archive-date= 2011-05-04 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

[[J. C. R. Licklider]], the first director of the [[United States Department of Defense]]'s [[DARPA|Advanced Research Project Agency]] (DARPA) [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] (IPTO), funded the project in early 1963. First experiments were done trying to connect a display at SRI to the massive one-of-a-kind [[AN/FSQ-32]] computer at the [[System Development Corporation]] in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref name="work86"/>