Editing 1968 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* April – First book printed completely using electronic composition, the United States edition of [[Paul Winterton|Andrew Garve]]'s thriller ''[[The Long Short Cut]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Altbach|first1=Philip Gabriel|last2=Hoshino|first2=Edith S.|title=International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuWEc20g0-cC&pg=PA65|year=1995|publisher=Garland Publishing|isbn=978-0-8153-0786-0|page=65}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kane|first=Joseph Nathan|year=1997|title=Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History|edition=5th|publisher=The H.W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0930-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00kane_0/page/67 67]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00kane_0/page/67}}</ref>
* July 18 – The [[semiconductor chip]] company [[Intel]] is founded by [[Gordon E. Moore]] and [[Robert Noyce]] in [[Mountain View, California]].
* December 9 – In what becomes retrospectively known as "[[The Mother of All Demos]]", [[Douglas Engelbart]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]]'s [[Augmentation Research Center]] demonstrates for the first time the [[computer mouse]], the [[video conference]], [[Teleconference|teleconferencing]], [[hypertext]], [[word processing]], [[hypermedia]], object addressing, the [[dynamic linker]] and a [[collaborative real-time editor]] using [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]].<ref>{{cite conference|chapter-url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3954.html|chapter=A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect|first1=W. K.|last1=English|authorlink1=Bill English (computer engineer)|first2=D. C.|last2=Engelbart|title=AFIPS Conference Proceedings of the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference|place=San Francisco|date=1968-12-09|volume=33|pages=395–410|work=Augment|id=3954}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1209|title=Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos|last=Tweney|first=Dylan|date=2008-09-12|work=[[Wired News]]|accessdate=2011-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/engelbart_celebration/|title=The Mother of All Demos — 150 years ahead of its time|last=Metz|first=Cade|date=2008-12-11|work=[[The Register]]|accessdate=2011-01-24}}</ref>