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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. Apr 20, 2024 · Why did Douglas Engelbart invent the mouse? This was done as part of Engelbart’s efforts to better organize and operate a computer screen. At the time, he was looking for better ways to use a display screen and create a more efficient graphical user interface.

  4. Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science.

  5. 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.

  6. Yet, two decades before Apple rolled out the Macintosh, Douglas Engelbart, a professor at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, Calif., dreamed up a wired box that would point and click its way into computer history.

  7. Jul 2, 2013 · NIHF Inductee Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse and earned many patents related to computer components while at the Stanford Research Institute.

  8. lemelson.mit.edu › award-winners › douglas-engelbartDouglas Engelbart - Lemelson

    Jul 2, 2013 · He held 20 patents and his inventions included the computer mouse, hypertext systems, windows, cross-file editing, groupware, and a host of other technologies that form the basis of interactive, collaborative computing.

  9. Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Oregon, USA. He is most well known as the inventor of the computer mouse. At SRI International, Engelbart was the primary force behind the design and development of the On-Line System, or NLS.

  10. Apr 9, 2010 · On December 9 1968, Douglas Engelbart, a computer scientist at Stanford Research Institute, mounted an elaborate 90-minute presentation in San Francisco’s Convention Center while...