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- Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer science visionary who was credited with inventing the mouse, the now-ubiquitous device that first allowed consumers to navigate virtual desktops with clicks and taps, died July 2 at his home in Atherton, Calif.
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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, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.
Apr 24, 2024 · Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963–64 as part of an experiment to find a better way to point and click on a display screen. Fashioned at the Stanford Research Institute, it had a carved wood casing and just one button.
Yet, two decades before Apple rolled out the Macintosh, Douglas Engelbart, a professor at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, Calif., dreamed up a wired box that would point and click its way into computer history.
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The philosophy that informed Doug Engelbart's revolutionary inventions for personal computing. Buy Engelbart’s entire career was based on an epiphany he had in the spring of 1951.
Jul 3, 2013 · Dr. Engelbart’s 1968 demonstration of interactive computing astounded scientists and the technology was later refined for Apple and Microsoft.
Dec 6, 2018 · Fifty years ago, computer visionary and internet pioneer Douglas Engelbart, along with 17 researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), gave a public demonstration of a computer called...
Jul 3, 2013 · Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer science visionary who was credited with inventing the mouse, the now-ubiquitous device that first allowed consumers to navigate virtual desktops with clicks and...