Ted Nelson
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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
- 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, Tempus Books/Microsoft Press, 1987. Reviews: d.h.f. (Byte, 1975), Shannon (NYT, 1988), Juliano (Connecticut Lib, 1996).
- The Home Computer Revolution (1977)
- 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. Review: Smoliar (Software Eng Notes, 1983). [1]
- 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]
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