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== Awards and honors == Since the late 1980s, prominent individuals and organizations have recognized the seminal importance of Engelbart's contributions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/honors.html|title=Honors Awarded to Doug Engelbart|publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute|access-date=June 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712033645/http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/honors.html|archive-date=July 12, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 1995, at the Fourth WWW Conference in [[Boston]], he was the first recipient of what would later become the [[Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award]]. In 1997, he was awarded the [[Lemelson-MIT Prize]] of $500,000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM [[Turing Award]].<ref name="ACMTuring1997"/> To mark the 30th anniversary of Engelbart's 1968 demo, in 1998 the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives and the [[Institute for the Future]] hosted ''Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution'', a [[symposium]] at [[Stanford University]]'s Memorial Auditorium, to honor Engelbart and his ideas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unrev.stanford.edu/introduction/introduction.html|title=Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanford University|date=December 9, 1998|work=[[Stanford University Libraries]]|publisher=[[Stanford University]]|access-date=June 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208131842/http://unrev.stanford.edu/introduction/introduction.html|archive-date=February 8, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> He was inducted into [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=53|title=Douglas Engelbart Computer Mouse Inducted in 1998|publisher=NIHF|access-date=February 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211845/http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=53|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Engelbart was awarded the Stibitz-Wilson Award from the [[American Computer & Robotics Museum]] in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://acrmuseum.org/1998|title=Stibitz-Wilson Awards 1998}}</ref> Also in 1998, [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (ACM) [[SIGCHI]] awarded Engelbart the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name=sigchi>{{cite web|url=http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/|title=SIGCHI Awards|publisher=SIGCHI|access-date=July 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624082711/http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards|archive-date=June 24, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> ACM SIGCHI later inducted Engelbart into the [[CHI Academy]] in 2002.<ref name=sigchi/> Engelbart was awarded [[The Franklin Institute Awards|The Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit]] in 1996 and the [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] in 1999 in Computer and Cognitive Science. In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called ''The Unfinished Revolution – II'', also known as the ''Engelbart Colloquium'' at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience (live, and online).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dougengelbart.org/colloquium/colloquium.html|title=Colloquium|publisher=Doug Engelbart institute|access-date=September 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607011320/http://www.dougengelbart.org/colloquium/colloquium.html|archive-date=June 7, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scpd.stanford.edu/engelbart_colloquium/index.jsp |type=video archives |year=2000 |title=UnRev-II: Engelbart's Colloquium |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |access-date=August 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021083641/http://scpd.stanford.edu/engelbart_colloquium/index.jsp |archive-date=October 21, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2000, U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] awarded Engelbart the [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation|National Medal of Technology]], the country's highest technology award.<ref name="fore">{{cite news |url= http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update43/Update43.2.html |title= Douglas Engelbart, Foresight Advisor, Is Awarded National Medal of Technology |publisher= Foresight Institute |work= Update |date= December 30, 2000 |volume= 43 |access-date= April 15, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081019170748/http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update43/Update43.2.html |archive-date= October 19, 2008 |url-status= live}}</ref> In 2001 he was awarded the [[British Computer Society]]'s [[Lovelace Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academy.bcs.org/content/lovelace-lecture|title=Lovelace lecture|publisher=[[British Computer Society]]|access-date=July 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531190301/http://academy.bcs.org/content/lovelace-lecture|archive-date=May 31, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, he was made a Fellow of the [[Computer History Museum]] "for advancing the study of human–computer interaction, developing the mouse input device, and for the application of computers to improving organizational efficiency."<ref name="chm"/> He was honored with the [[Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility|Norbert Wiener Award]], which is given annually by [[Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpsr.org/about/wiener/wiener-award/|title=Winners of the Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility|publisher=CPSR|access-date=July 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204081936/http://cpsr.org/about/wiener/wiener-award/|archive-date=February 4, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert X. Cringely]] did an hour-long interview with Engelbart on December 9, 2005, in his [[NerdTV]] video podcast series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/nerdtv011|title=NerdTV Episode 11|publisher=Internet Archive|date=December 9, 2005|access-date=July 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004022353/https://archive.org/details/nerdtv011|archive-date=October 4, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> On December 9, 2008, Engelbart was honored at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the 1968 "[[The Mother of All Demos|Mother of All Demos]]".<ref name="SRI40">{{cite web|url= http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113014138/http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html|archive-date=January 13, 2012|title= Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing|date=November 16, 1968 |publisher=[[SRI International]]}}</ref> The event was produced by SRI International and held at Memorial Auditorium at Stanford University. Speakers included several members of Engelbart's original Augmentation Research Center (ARC) team including Don Andrews, Bill Paxton, Bill English, and [[Jeff Rulifson]], Engelbart's chief government sponsor [[Robert Taylor (computer scientist)|Bob Taylor]], and other pioneers of interactive computing, including [[Andy van Dam]] and [[Alan Kay]]. In addition, Christina Engelbart spoke about her father's early influences and the ongoing work of the Doug Engelbart Institute.<ref name="SRI40"/> In June 2009, the [[New Media Consortium]] recognized Engelbart as an NMC Fellow for his lifetime of achievements.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmc.org/about/fellows/2009-fellows-award-doug-engelbart-phd |title=2009 NMC Fellows Award: Doug Engelbart, Ph.D. |publisher=[[New Media Consortium]] |access-date=August 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815205407/http://www.nmc.org/about/fellows/2009-fellows-award-doug-engelbart-phd |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, Engelbart was inducted into [[IEEE Intelligent Systems]]' AI's Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1109/MIS.2011.64 |title=AI's Hall of Fame |url=http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf |journal=[[IEEE Intelligent Systems]] |publisher=[[IEEE Computer Society]] |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=5–15 |year=2011 |access-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235804/http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf |archive-date=December 16, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> Engelbart received the first [[Honorary degree|honorary]] Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree from [[Yale University]] in May 2011.<ref name="yaledoc-hartford">{{cite web |title=Yale Awards Honorary Degrees To Joan Didion, Martin Scorsese |work=[[Hartford Courant]] |date=May 24, 2011 |url=https://www.courant.com/2011/05/24/yale-awards-honorary-degrees-to-joan-didion-martin-scorsese/ |access-date=March 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513142317/http://articles.courant.com/2011-05-24/news/hc-yale-commencement-0524-20110523_1_honorary-degrees-doctor-graduates |archive-date=May 13, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="yaledoc-yale">{{cite web |title=Citations for Recipients of Honorary Degrees at Yale University 2011 |work=[[Yale University]] |date=May 23, 2011 |url=http://news.yale.edu/citations-recipients-honorary-degrees-yale-university-2011 |access-date=March 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510170744/http://news.yale.edu/citations-recipients-honorary-degrees-yale-university-2011 |archive-date=May 10, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="yaledoc-ydn">{{cite web |title=University confers 2,907 degrees at 310th Commencement |work=[[Yale Daily News]] |first1=David |last1=Burt |first2=Max |last2=de la Bruyère |date=May 23, 2011 |url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/05/23/university-confers-2907-degrees-at-310th-commencement/ |access-date=March 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408012839/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/05/23/university-confers-2907-degrees-at-310th-commencement/ |archive-date=April 8, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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