studies Getting credentials and knowledge.

What we need to convey: He needed to get his journeymans card. The two main points here may be how people didn't understand him and the historical events of what and where he studied etc.

Mood: The mood of this section is more story oriented. We could be showing anyone who doesn't fit and who's trying to get something done here, this is more about the person who thinks different, the geek, the artist, the outsider. It's color basically.

Background: Nothing I can think of yet.

Interviewee's: Cannot think of any.

Visuals: Location, location, location. Berkeley, SRI, early HP? Silicon valley in general?

Q:   You spent some time at Berkeley as a student?
A:    To do this kind of research he probably needed a PhD. He Applied to Stanford and Berkeley. Berkeley had a research project to build a computer called CALDIC (California Digital Computer) so that made him decide. However it never worked when he was there - it was not finished before he got his degree and left. At Berkeley he was biding time, learning about basic electromagnetic wave propagation, solid state physics, symbolic logic. Doug puts in a very nice way: I was basically getting my journeyman's card. I also got a bunch of patents - 13-14 from the PhD thesis. Doubt they were useful in the world... They had labs and courses on digital circuit design. Making adders and multipliers and arithmetic controls, watching registers. They wrote programs in machine language. By hand. And exchanged their designs with other students to debug each others work. There was talk of research projects to make assemblers and compilers, but that was not quite a reality yet. Pretty geeky days!

Q:   And as a teacher?
A:   Then he was an acting assistant professor at Berkeley. Teaching basic electrical engineering,.

Q:   And as a family man!
A:   One singular event happened- he and his wife had had 3 children. His wife got this great theory if you get your first 2 closely together there would be less sibling rivalry, but the unplanned number three came and hour later! It became a matter of teaching and bringing up the kids. 2-3 hours a day of great focus and concentration. So no more evening time for the crusade.

Q:   But Berkeley didn't last?...
A:   He made some friends in other faculty though. There was a BBQ at an economics professors. Doug helped clean up afterwards and they got talking. The economics professor wanted to know what kind of research he was planning to get started. What kind of research he'd do would be important for his career etc. Doug told him about computers and augmentation - there came a point when he didn't look very interested. He looked at Doug and said: Do you know how promotions are done at university? Doug remembers the moment well: My jaw dropped, guess I don't. It's about peer review: If you don't get papers published you won't advanced. Papers get published by peer review.Talk like this and they won't get reviews. So much for blindly looking for an academic career!

:  Doug assumed he had to learn about computers. He had been out of college for three years and was due to be married.

To do this kind of research he thought he probably needed a PhD. He Applied to Stanford and Berkeley. Berkeley had a research project to build a computer called CALDIC (California Digital Computer) so that made him decide. However it never worked when he was there - it was not finished before he got his degree and left.

They had labs and courses on digital circuit design. They wrote programs in machine language. By hand.

The idea of individuals using interactive computers was ludicrous at the time.

He got his masters in 1952 and moved on to getting his PhD which he recived in 1955.

At Berkeley he was biding time, learning about basic electromagnetic wave propagation, solid state physics, symbolic logic. He was getting his journeyman's card. he also got a bunch of patents - 13-14 from the PhD thesis.

After gradutaing he became an acting assistant professor at Berkeley teaching basic electrical engineering.

At this point he and his wife had had 3 children.

It became a matter of teaching and bringing up the kids. 2-3 hours a day of great focus and concentration. So no more evening time for the crusade.

He made some friends in other faculty though. There was a BBQ at an economics professors. Doug helped clean up afterwards and they got talking. The economics professor wanted to know what kind of research he was planning to get started. What kind of research he'd do would of course be important for his career etc.

Doug told him about computers and augmentation. His friend looked at Doug and said: "Do you know how promotions are done at university?" Doug remembers the moment well: "My jaw dropped, guess I don't." It's about peer review: If you don't get papers published you won't advanced. Papers get published by peer review.Talk like this and they won't get reviews. So much for blindly looking for an academic career!