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Doug Engelbart the Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies
Published Jul 8, 2013
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Doug Engelbart, who invented the computer mouse as an engineer at the Stanford Research Institute, has died. He was 88.
Engelbart died Tuesday 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.
Engelbart gave the first demonstration of a computer mouse on December 9, 1968, which has since been dubbed the "Mother of All Demos." In addition to the mouse, Engelbart showed many technologies now common in computing, including video conferencing, word processing, hypertext and collaborative editing . His research also pioneered the way for graphical user interfaces.
More than a year before the demo, Engelbart applied for a patent on the mouse, which he received in 1970. It was a simple wooden shell with two metal wheels, which the application describes as an "X-Y position indicator control for movement of the hand to move a cursor over the display on a cathode-ray tube."
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