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Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science.
Jun 28, 2024 · Douglas Engelbart (born January 30, 1925, Portland, Oregon, U.S.—died July 2, 2013, Atherton, California) 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.
On December 8, 1968, Douglas Engelbart sat in front of a crowd of 1,000 in San Francisco, ready to introduce networked computing to the world. Engelbart was no Steve Jobs. He was a shy engineer...
Jul 3, 2013 · An obituary on July 4 about Douglas C. Engelbart, a visionary scientist who invented the computer mouse, misstated his date of birth. It was Jan. 30, 1925 — not Jan. 25. A reader recently ...
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.
Jul 2, 2013 · Attempting to solve these ever more complex/urgent problems with the help of computer hardware and software has been the story of Douglas Engelbart’s professional life, his “crusade”. Douglas C. Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1925, the second of three children of a couple of Scandinavian and German descent.
Dec 10, 2018 · On December 9, 1968—fifty years ago this week---Engelbart debuted these innovations in what has subsequently been hailed as “the mother of all demos.”. [1] This post explores the motivations that led to the demo, and its singular influence on the history of computing.
