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The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

16 Friday Oct 2020

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The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy Panelists: Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (2009-13) and Ambassador to Kenya (1999-2003), Zimbabwe (1995-1997), and Uganda (1991-1994); Chris Savos, Deputy Director of the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, CIA and Vice President of Special Projects at JTG, Inc. and Director of Proficiency1; Anne Witkowsky, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability and Humanitarian Affairs (2014-16) and Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State (2009-13)

Moderated by: Christianne Hardy, Interim Director, Dickey Center Organized and hosted by the Dickey Center, Dartmouth College.

Fifty years ago a demo of the future

15 Saturday Jun 2019

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FIFTY YEARS AGO today, Doug Engelbart showed 2,000 people a preview of the future.

Engelbart gave a demonstration of the “oN-Line System” at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 1968. The oN-Line System was the first hypertext system, preceding the web by more than 20 years. But it was so much more than that. When Engelbart typed a word, it appeared simultaneously on his screen in San Francisco and on a terminal screen at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park. When Engelbart moved his mouse, the cursor moved in both locations.

The demonstration was impressive not just because Engelbart showed off Google Docs-style collaboration decades before Google was founded. It was impressive because he and his team at SRI’s Augmentation Research Center had to conceive of and create nearly every piece of technology they displayed, from the window-based graphical interface to the computer mouse. Read the rest HERE 

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