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==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
* ''Life, Love, College, etc.'', 1959 | * ''Life, Love, College, etc.'', 1959 | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [[Media:Nelson_Ted_1965_A_File_Structure_for_the_Complex_the_Changing_and_the_Indeterminate.pdf|"A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate"]], in ''Proceedings of the ACM National Conference'', New York: ACM, 1965, pp 84-100, [https://archive.org/details/nelson-file-structure/page/n0 IA]. |
* "A Conceptual Framework for Man-Machine Everything", in ''Proceedings AFIPS National Computer Conference and Exposition M21-M26, June 4–8, 1973, New York'', Montvale, NJ: AFIPS Press, 1973. | * "A Conceptual Framework for Man-Machine Everything", in ''Proceedings AFIPS National Computer Conference and Exposition M21-M26, June 4–8, 1973, New York'', Montvale, NJ: AFIPS Press, 1973. | ||
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3405 Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now / Dream Machines: New Freedoms through Computer Screens—A Minority Report]'', Hugo's Book Service, 1974; rev.ed, Redmund, WA: Tempus Books/Microsoft Press, 1987. [[Media:Nelson_Ted_1974_2003_Computer_Lib_Dream_Machines_excerpts.pdf|Excerpts]]. Reviews: [http://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-sept-oct-1975/two/82.jpg d.h.f.] (Byte, 1975), [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/science/peripherals-a-book-that-grew-up.html Shannon] (NYT, 1988), [http://web.archive.org/web/20070203053956/cla.uconn.edu/reviews/cmptrlib.html Juliano] (Connecticut Lib, 1996). | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3405 Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now / Dream Machines: New Freedoms through Computer Screens—A Minority Report]'', Hugo's Book Service, 1974; rev.ed, Redmund, WA: Tempus Books/Microsoft Press, 1987. [[Media:Nelson_Ted_1974_2003_Computer_Lib_Dream_Machines_excerpts.pdf|Excerpts]]. Reviews: [http://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-sept-oct-1975/two/82.jpg d.h.f.] (Byte, 1975), [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/science/peripherals-a-book-that-grew-up.html Shannon] (NYT, 1988), [http://web.archive.org/web/20070203053956/cla.uconn.edu/reviews/cmptrlib.html Juliano] (Connecticut Lib, 1996). | ||
Revision as of 18:17, 29 September 2018
Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson (born 17 June 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson also coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity (in Literary Machines) and teledildonics.
Publications
- Life, Love, College, etc., 1959
- "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate", in Proceedings of the ACM National Conference, New York: ACM, 1965, pp 84-100, IA.
- "A Conceptual Framework for Man-Machine Everything", in Proceedings AFIPS National Computer Conference and Exposition M21-M26, June 4–8, 1973, New York, Montvale, NJ: AFIPS Press, 1973.
- Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now / Dream Machines: New Freedoms through Computer Screens—A Minority Report, Hugo's Book Service, 1974; rev.ed, Redmund, WA: Tempus Books/Microsoft Press, 1987. Excerpts. Reviews: d.h.f. (Byte, 1975), Shannon (NYT, 1988), Juliano (Connecticut Lib, 1996).
- The Home Computer Revolution, 1977.
- Selected Papers, 1965-77, 1977, PDF.
- Literary Machines: The Report on, and of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom, Sausalito, CA, Mindful Press, 1980-84; 1987; 1990-93. Chapters 0-1 (c1987). Review: Smoliar (Software Eng Notes, 1983). [1]
- "The Right Way to Think about Software Design", in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, ed. Brenda Laurel, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990, pp 235-243.
- The Future of Information, 1997.
- "A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe: Data Model, Mechanisms, Virtual Machine and Visualization Infrastructure", Journal of Digital Information 5:1, 16 July 2004.
- Geeks Bearing Gifts: How The Computer World Got This Way, 2008. Chapter summaries. [2]
- POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization, Mindful Press, 2010. Autobiography. [3] [4]
