Douglas Carl Engelbart has a thirty-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. He studied Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University and completed his Bachelors Degree in 1948. He settled in the San Francisco penisula and worked as an electrical engineer at NACA Ames Laboratory (forerunner of NASA) for three years and then applied to the graduate program in Electrical Engineering at U.C. Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in 1955, along with a half dozen patents in "bi-stable gaseous plasma digital devices". Within a year he settled on a research position at SRI (then Stanford Research Institute), where he earned another dozen patents in two years working on magnetic computer components, fundamental digital-device phenomena, and miniaturization scaling potential. By 1959 he had enough standing to get approval to pursue his own research.In 1963 Engelbart finally got the funds to start his own research lab, which he later dubbed the Augmentation Research Center. He began by developing the kind of technology he believed would be required to augment our human intellect, and also to support the bootstrapping/augmentation process. Throughout the `60s and `70s his lab pioneered an elaborate hypermedia-groupware system called NLS (for oNLine System), most of whose now-common features were conceived of, fully integrated, and in everyday operational use, by the early 1970's. NLS was first demonstrated in public at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference in a remarkable 90-minute multimedia presentation, in which Engelbart used NLS to outline and illustrate his points, while others of his staff linked in from his lab at SRI to demonstrate key features of the system. This was the world debut of the mouse, hypermedia, and on-screen video teleconferencing. In the last decade, thousands of knowledge workers in industry and government have benefitted from the unique team support capabilities of NLS and its evolutionary successor AUGMENT. In 1989 Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, feeling the time was ripe to pursue in earnest his comprehensive strategy for bootstrapping organizations in to the 21st century. His focus continues to be in creating high-performance organizations by fostering bootstrapping communities, researching and developing and deploying these capabilities on a continuous improvement basis, with pro-active participation from stakeholders in government, industry, and society. Engelbart divides his time between R&D, consulting, publications, speaking engagements, and leading seminars, workshops, and participatory "expeditions." Doug Engelbart has authored over 25 publications and generated 20 patents, including the patent for the mouse. (Engelbart, 1995)