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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.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 ...
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 · 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 ...
Overview 1. 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. The first mouse now on exhibit at the Smithsonian!
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 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.
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 ...
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 4, 2013 · Thu 4 Jul 2013 11.30 EDT. Doug Engelbart, who has died aged 88, will be remembered as the man who in 1963 invented the computer mouse, but that was incidental to his vision of computers augmenting ...
