DOUGLAS ENGELBART

By: Christina Rodriguez

Cayla Wyvill

FACTS(:

Douglas Engelbart’s most famous invention was

the computer mouse, also developed in the 1960’s

but not commercially used until the 1980’s.

In 1942 he graduated high school, and went onto

Oregon State University where he studies electrical

engineering.

Englebart developed a new dream; he later

enrolled in a graduate program for electrical

engineering at UC Berkeley, and earned his Ph.D. in

1955.

In 1963, Engelbart set up his own research lab. He

called it the Augmentation Research Center.

Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s his lab developed

an elaborate hypermedia-groupware system called

NLS(online system)

He also invented windows, computer video

teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, email, the

internet, and more.

In 1964 the first prototype computer was made to

use with a graphical user interface(GUI) “windows”

In 1968 there was a 90 minute staged public

demonstration of the first ever computer mouse, and

of everything else that he created.

The computer mouse got its name because the

cord came out of the end of the mouse.

Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is still

working closely with industry and government stakeholders

to launch a collaborative implementation of his work.

Engelbart has received numerous awards for outstanding

lifetime achievement and ingenuity. His life's work, with his

"big-picture" vision and persistent pioneering breakthroughs,

has made a significant impact on the past, present, and future

of personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing.