Editing Douglas Engelbart (section)

=== Guiding philosophy ===
Engelbart's career was inspired in December 1950 when he was engaged to be married and realized he had no career goals other than "a steady job, getting married and living happily ever after".<ref name=OBrien1999>{{cite news |url=http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_23592605 |title=Douglas Engelbart's lasting legacy |date=February 9, 1999 |author=Tia O'Brien |work=San Jose Mercury News |access-date=July 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707130924/http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_23592605 |archive-date=July 7, 2013}}</ref> Over several months he reasoned that:
# he would focus his career on making the world a better place<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/colloquium/colloquium.html|title=The Unfinished Revolution II: Strategy and Means for Coping with Complex Problems|work=Colloquium at Stanford University|publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute|date=April 2000|access-date=June 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007003536/http://dougengelbart.org/colloquium/colloquium.html|archive-date=October 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
# any serious effort to make the world better would require some kind of organized effort that harnessed the collective human intellect of all people to contribute to effective solutions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Barnes |first1=S.B. |date=July 1997 |title=Douglas Carl Engelbart: developing the underlying concepts for contemporary computing |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/601730 |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=16–26 |doi=10.1109/85.601730 |issn=1934-1547|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems – the sooner the better
# computers could be the vehicle for dramatically improving this capability.<ref name=OBrien1999/>

In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html#2|title=The MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium: Influence on Doug Engelbart|publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute|access-date=June 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914061144/http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html#2|archive-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge. He had also read something about the recent phenomenon of computers, and from his experience as a radar technician, he knew that information could be analyzed and displayed on a screen. He envisioned intellectual workers sitting at display "working stations", flying through information space, harnessing their collective intellectual capacity to solve important problems together in much more powerful ways. Harnessing collective intellect, facilitated by interactive computers, became his life's mission at a time when computers were viewed as number crunching tools.<ref name="aughum">{{cite web|title=Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework|first1=Douglas C|last1=Engelbart|work=SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, Prepared for: Director of Information Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research|publisher=SRI International, hosted by The Doug Engelbart Institute|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html|date=October 1962|access-date=August 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504035147/http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html|archive-date=May 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As a graduate student at Berkeley, he assisted in the construction of [[CALDIC]]. His graduate work led to eight patents.<ref name="The Doug Engelbart Institute">{{cite web|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/patents.html|title=U.S. Patents held by Douglas C. Engelbart|publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute|access-date=August 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824011812/http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/patents.html|archive-date=August 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> After completing his doctorate, Engelbart stayed on at Berkeley as an [[assistant professor]] for a year before departing when it became clear that he could not pursue his vision there. Engelbart then formed a startup company, Digital Techniques, to commercialize some of his doctoral research on storage devices, but after a year decided instead to pursue the research he had been dreaming of since 1951.<ref name="pursuit">{{cite web|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/history/engelbart.html|title=A Lifetime Pursuit|publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute|access-date=August 11, 2013|archive-date=July 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705223025/http://www.dougengelbart.org/history/engelbart.html|url-status=live}}<!--|quote=Within a year, however, he was tipped off by a colleague that if he kept talking about his "wild ideas" he'd be an acting assistant professor forever. So he ventured back down into what is now Silicon Valley, in search of more suitable employment.--></ref>