Footnote

About the name Doug Engelbart Institute: You may have known our organization by a different name -- Bootstrap Institute, or Bootstrap Alliance. We changed our name to the Doug Engelbart Institute in 2008 to better reflect the man whose seminal work we represent. Doug Engelbart and his daughter/partner Christina Engelbart first incorporated the Bootstrap Institute in 1988 as a California corporation to "raise a flag" on neutral ground where organizations could collaborate on his vision. He had previously been at SRI, a research institution, and then in large commercial companies, and needed the freedom to explore and engage his visionary work as a free agent. The Bootstrap Institute actually functioned more like a non-profit organization in their quest to form strategic alliances aimed at dramatically improving the performance of organizations and, thereby, society at large. Thus was born a collaborative Alliance Program, which they co-founded as the Bootstrap Alliance, a non-profit organizational base for collaboration. The work was funded primarily through government R&D contracts, Alliance sponsors, workshops, and consulting. Eventually they dropped the Bootstrap Institute altogether, and finally renamed the non-profit more fittinglyto the Doug Engelbart Institute.