Douglas Engelbart View
Name: Douglas Carl Engelbart
Born: January 30, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, USA
Death: July 2, 2013 (Age: 88)
Computer related contributions
- Invented the computer mouse.
- Talked about and demonstrated the concepts of hypertext on NLS in 1968.
- Helped with the development of a GUI while at Xerox PARC.
Publications
- Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Co-evolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing.
Honors and awards
- National Medal of Technology
- Lemelson-MIT Prize
- Turing Award
- Lovelace Medal
- Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
- Fellow Award
- Computer History Museum
Quotes
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”