History of Computer Science at SRI in the 20th Century

The Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is one of the oldest labs at SRI, being founded in the early 1950s. There were/are several sibling labs doing related work, including Telecommunication Sciences, Augmentation, Robotics, and AI. Here are some of the early accomplishments of these labs.

• History of Computing at SRI, written 30 years ago and preserved by the Web Archive

• Wikipedia on Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center, where the modern world was created, as revealed in...

• The Mother of All Demos

• A pretty good movie about Engelbart and the Augmentation Center

• The first Internet transmission and the SRI Van (also the first packet speech)

• The SRI Van: more on the Van

• History of Fault Tolerance at SRI: by Jack Goldberg 1987

• "Inside SRI" from 1986: The Computer and Information Science Division (this is a big file, it's a scan)

• The SRI Gargoyle: an apparition in 1980.