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Jul 2, 2013 · Military Service: U.S. Navy. Douglas Engelbart's patent for the mouse is only a representation of his pioneering work designing modern interactive computer environments. Engelbart was born and grew up near Portland, Oregon. He served in the Navy as an electronics technician during World War II, and received his B.S. from Oregon State University.
Jul 2, 2013 · Engelbart authored over 25 publications, earned more than 20 patents, and received many honors, including the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize. In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton. In a talk delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Bill Gates praised Engelbart for his pioneering work.
Jul 4, 2013 · In 1997 Engelbart won the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize for his invention. Three years later he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Clinton.
Jul 3, 2013 · U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88.
Douglas Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1925 and holds a BS in electrical engineering from Oregon State University (1948) and an MS (1953) and PhD (1955), also in electrical engineering, from UC Berkeley. After a stint as an assistant professor at Berkeley, he left for the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California ...
Dec 9, 2018 · Doug Engelbart at an NLS workstation. In 1945, a young naval radar operator was waiting to be shipped home in the slack days after victory in WWII. He read a magazine article in his Philippine jungle base that proposed a new kind of information system, based on a fabulous desk called a Memex.
Jul 3, 2013 · July 3, 2013, 2:13 PM PDT. By Devin Coldewey. Douglas Engelbart, the thought leader and engineer who created, among many other things, the concept of the computer mouse, has passed away Tuesday at ...
