Originator of "hypertext"

[Lisa Baker <LISAB -at- WORDPERFECT -dot- COM>]

Several years ago (1989 or so) I attended a presentation at
IBM's Santa Teresa Lab given by the fellow who originated the
term "hypertext".  At the time he was working at Autocad doing
R&D on electronic delivery methods, I think.  He talked a lot
about the future of documentation and as I recall described
something like the world-wide-web where you click a hypertext
link and jump to a document a world away.  He also talked
about the self-documenting application and likened it to
Pac-Man.  The screen tells you everything you need to know.

Does anyone know what this guy's name is?  His presentation
impressed me and I wanted to do some more reading on his
work and ideas.

I'm under the impression that he no longer works for Autocad
since I heard they reorganized to focus on their key markets.  I'm
also under the impression that he was a colleague of Alan Kay,
at Xerox's 60s Palo Alto Research Park, but I might be wrong
about this.

Thanks.
Lisa Baker      lisab -at- wordperfect -dot- com
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