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engelbart was never the head of sri, and sri didn't have a downfall; they're still around and extremely highly respected. i worked on a darpa contract last year where sri was another performer on the contract, delivering http://spw20.langsec.org/papers/parsley-langsec2020.pdf and related work

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Engelbart was the head of SRI's Augmentation Research Center. My understanding is that after the ARC was sold off in the mid 70s, the new corporate owner tried to commercialize the work, stopped funding new research, and most of the researchers left. Disclaimer: I know very little about this story.

This comment jogged my memory of a Ted Nelson video subtitled 'It all went wrong at Xerox PARC' : https://youtu.be/c6SUOeAqOjU

Tangent, but since there are mentions of history books in these comments, I highly recommend Ted Nelson’s autobiography. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673124

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