Douglas Engelbart, a computer scientist credited with conceiving the thought of computer mouse- now ubiquitous and indispensable a part of computer system, has died. He worked like a computer scientist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) which later patented Mouse (later licensed to Apple making commercially available in 1984 with Apple’s new Macintosh).
He earned some other pioneering and “ahead of their time” discoveries in his lab- “Augmentation Research Center” :
His famous presentation in December 1968 about his vision for future years of human-machine interaction – has become known as ‘The Mother of all Demos’
- ardent believer from the idea that human-computer interaction can be used to “augmenting human intellect”
- Initially documented as “X-Y position indicator for any display system” invention of mouse made computers user- friendly
He earned some other pioneering and “ahead of their time” discoveries in his lab- “Augmentation Research Center” :
- Illustration showing the idea and display of initial ever “video conferencing”
- Development of ‘hypertext’- explained how pages of knowledge could be tied together using text-based links
- Utilization of multiple windows – real-time collaboration on a single desktop; division of a screen into windows-like subsections
- Helped develop ARPANet – the federal government research network that led to the Internet
- Precursors to graphical user interfaces
- Concept of Networked computers
His famous presentation in December 1968 about his vision for future years of human-machine interaction – has become known as ‘The Mother of all Demos’
- US $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize in 1997
- National Medal of Technology by President in 2000 “for allowing the foundations of personal computing”.
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