As a direct beneficiary of this work (Ron Baecker who did his PhD there was one of my main mentors during my graduate student days), I have always held it in high esteem. I have also always felt that it has not gotten the attention that it deserved. This came to a head when I had the privilege to meet and work with Bert Sutherland in 2001. I knew of Bert, but had never seen the film of the graphical programming system that he had done for his 1966 PhD thesis. Exposure to it spurred me into action, with the result that at the 2005 SIGCHI conference, I organized a panel which highlighted the work of the group, and its relevance to computing and research today. 

My purpose with this web page is to provide a portal to the archival relating to the work of this group, including videos of their work, links to articles and theses documenting their work, and a video of the SIGCHI panel itself. In addition, it is my intention to record interviews with some of the key players in the lab who were unable to attend the panel. 

That is, of course, a big promise. Especially if one wants to "do it right", and properly index the material, etc. The good news is that several people have volunteered to help, including the Knowledge Media Design Institute of the University of Toronto.  All of this takes time, so this page is a work-in-progress.  So return from time to time in order to check what is new.

Enjoy.

• http://epresence.tv/Presentation/3

I also prepared an comprehensive write-up on the panel which appeared in the conference proceedings   

• Buxton, William (2005). Interaction at Lincoln Laboratory in the 1960's:  Looking Forward – Looking Back . Panel Introduction.  Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'05 , April 3-7, 2005, 1163-1167.

1989 SIGGRAPH Panel:
Note also that there was a related panel at SIGGRAPH in 1989.  It was a retrospective of early work in computer graphics, including Lincoln Lab.  It is documented in the following two articles.  What is nice about this material is that it covers some work that  precedes that covered in the panel that I organized, and is therefore complimentary to it. 

• Hurst, J., Mahoney, M.S., Taylor, N.H., Ross, D.T. & Fano, R.M. (1989). Retrospectives I: The Early Years in Computer Graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard.  ACM SIGGRAPH'89 Panel Proceedings, 19-38.
• Hurst, J., Mahoney, M.S., Gilmore, J.T., Roberts, L.G. & Forrest, R. (1989). Retrospectives II: The Early Years in Computer Graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard.  ACM SIGGRAPH'89 Panel Proceedings, 39-73.