Theodor Holm Nelson

Person

URL:

Ted Nelson Home Page

Ted Nelson (Wikipedia)

Residency:

United States

Nationality:

United States

Born:

1937

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Not yet reviewed

Short biography:

Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Critical writing by this author:

Title	Publication Type	Publisher	Year
Libertando-se da Prisão	Article or chapter in a book	Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo	2010
Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way	Book (monograph) - print	Mindful Press	2009
Fixing the Computer World	Keynote address		2004
From computer lib/dream machines	Article or chapter in a book	The MIT Press	2003
Way Out of the Box	Article on the author's website		1999
Where the Trail Leads	Conference paper or presentation		1995
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	Book (monograph) - print	Mindful Press	1993
Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive	Article or chapter in a book		1981
Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now / Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report	Book (monograph) - print	Theodor Holm Nelson	1974
A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate	Conference paper or presentation	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	1965
Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate	Conference paper or presentation	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	1965
No More Teacher's Dirty Looks	Article or chapter in a book

Full Name:

Theodor Holm Nelson

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