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2023 Awards. 2014 Inductee. Douglas Engelbart. Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer, Posthumous Recipient. In 1963, Dr. Engelbart founded the Augmentation Research Center lab at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif., where he pioneered a system for “augmenting human intellect,” in which workers sitting at display workstations could collaborate on solutions to ...
Jul 2, 2013 · Douglas C. Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1925, the second of three children of a couple of Scandinavian and German descent. His father was an electrical engineer who owned a radio shop until he died (when Douglas was nine years old). He graduated from high school in 1942, and went on to study Electrical Engineering at Oregon State ...
Jul 3, 2013 · Douglas Carl Engelbart was born in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 30, 1925, to Carl and Gladys Engelbart. He spent his formative years on a farm in suburban Portland, graduated from high school in 1942 ...
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 ...
Jul 2, 2013 · Born on a farmstead in Oregon in 1925, Engelbart earned his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton and many honors thereafter for his work. Engelbart passed away on July 2, 2013 at the age of 88. At what later became known as ...
Feb 5, 2024 · 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 ...
Jul 8, 2013 · Doug Engelbart, who invented the computer mouse as an engineer at the Stanford Research Institute, has died. He was 88. Engelbart died July 2 at his home in Atherton, Calif., his family said. Engelbart, who lectured at Stanford in the 1990s, was known as a visionary – a big-picture thinker who also knew the technical details.
