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Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer.He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext ...
Big Thinkers. What device did Douglas Engelbart invent? By: Nicholas Gerbis. The first (wooden!) computer mouse prototype created by Douglas Engelbart and Bill English. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images. In 1963, there was no Internet, computers were anything but personal, and BASIC still had that new-programming-language smell [source: CHM ].
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Apr 24, 2024 · Mark Hall. Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware. Engelbart won the 1997 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “inspiring.
Valerie Landau. January 2018. Engelbart designed the mouse to replace the light pen as a pointing device. Computer History Museum / Mark Richards. On December 8, 1968, Douglas...
Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in the early 1960s in his research lab at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International). The first prototype – a one-button mouse in a wooden shell on wheels – was built in 1964 to test the concept.
Jul 3, 2013 · Dr. Engelbart grew convinced that computers would quickly become more powerful and that there would be enough processing power to design the Memex-like Augment system that he envisioned.
Douglas Engelbart: Computer visionary. Few inventors have had as much impact on modern computing as Douglas Engelbart (M.S.’53, Ph.D.’55 EECS). Engelbart had long aimed to make the world a better place, and early on in his career, he identified computers as a key tool for solving complex problems. He went on to invent the computer mouse in ...