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Jul 3, 2013 · Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.
Douglas Engelbart, heralded as one of the earliest inventors of the computer mouse, has passed away at age 88. The Internet pioneer's death — caused by kidney failure, according to the New York...
- Epiphany
- Stanford Research Institute
- Pioneering Computer Interface Ideas
- The Mouse
- What Happened Next …
- The Pursuit of His Creative Vision
- Global Recognition
- Augmenting Collective Human Intelligence
Engelbart appears to have had what people often describe as an ‘epiphany’ in 1951, the year in which he was engaged to be married. He seems to have decided that he wanted to play a part in making the world a better place by harnessing the collective human intellect to find better solutions to problems. As part of his vision, Engelbart decided that ...
He took up a position at SRI International (known then as Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, California, in 1957. First off, he worked for Hewitt Crane. While at SRI, Engelbart obtained more than a dozen patents over an organic timeframe, some of which were spawned from his graduate studies. In 1962, Engelbart released a report about his v...
Together with his team, he developed pioneering computer interface elements, such as bitmapped screens, the mouse, hypertext, collaborative tools, and precursors to the graphical user interface. It is believed he came up with many of his user interface ideas back in the mid-1960s – long before the onslaught of the personal computer revolution. SRI’...
So what type of patents did he apply for and get? The computer mouse, for instance. In 1967, he applied for a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels, which he had co-developed with Bill English, his lead engineer. In the patent application it is described as an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Engelbart would later divulge ...
Engelbart also showcased his corded keyboard and many more of his and ARC’s inventions in 1968. Engelbart’s research was funded by DAPPA, while SRI’s ARC would become involved with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the internet. The ARPANET was one of the world’s first operational packet switching networks. I...
Engelbart retired from McDonnell Douglas in 1986 as he wanted to liberate himself from the commercial world in order to pursue his own ideas. Together with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to bring his ideas into a series of management seminars that were offered at Stanford University between 1989-2000. ...
In 1995, at the fourth WWW Conference in Boston, Engelbart was the first recipient of what would later become known as the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award In 1997, he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of US$500,000, the world’s largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award. Then, in 1998, to mark the 30th anniversary of ...
Hoards of people met at The Tech Museum in San Jose, California, and online to thrash out ideas on how to pursue his vision to augment collective intelligence. In terms of his personal life, Engelbart had four children, Gerda, Diana, Christina and Norman with his first wife Ballard, who died in 1997 after 47 years of marriage. He married writer and...
Douglas Engelbart, a visionary of the information age who is best known for inventing the computer mouse, has died at the age of 88. Engelbart unveiled his mouse, a wooden shell with metal...
Jul 4, 2013 · Douglas C. Engelbart, a visionary scientist whose singular epiphany in 1950 about technology’s potential to expand human intelligence led to a host of inventions — among them the computer mouse —...
Jul 4, 2013 · Doug Engelbart, the man who gave us a billion computer mice, dies aged 88. American inventor also behind hypertext, video conferencing, and shared desktops
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Jul 3, 2013 · SAN FRANCISCO—Douglas C. Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, has...
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