Friday, 5 July 2013

Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88

Douglas Engelbart - the father of the computer mouse and so many of the other basic concepts that drive our personal machines and the modern internet - has died last Tuesday at the age of 88.

Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges of human-computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.

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