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'''Douglas Engelbart''' (1925-2013) was an American inventor. | '''Douglas Engelbart''' (1925-2013) was an American inventor. | ||
[[File:Douglas Engelbart.jpg|alt=Portrait photograph of Douglas Engelbart|thumb|Douglas Engelbart, ca. 1966 | [[File:Douglas Engelbart.jpg|alt=Portrait photograph of Douglas Engelbart|thumb|Douglas Engelbart, ca. 1966. Photo from the National Museum of American History ]] | ||
==Life== | ==Life== | ||
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==Contributions== | ==Contributions== | ||
Engelbart invented many items that helped to revolutionize the computer industry, such as the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" (the prototype of the computer mouse). He holds a total of 20 patents, 1 for the mouse, 7 for his work related to bi-stable gaseous plasma digital devices, and 12 for his work on all-magnetic digital devices. Engelbart also founded the Bootstrap Institute (now called the Doug Engelbart Institute), where he was an inventor and computer consultant before retiring in 2008. | Engelbart invented many items that helped to revolutionize the computer industry, such as the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" (the prototype of the computer mouse). He holds a total of 20 patents, 1 for the mouse, 7 for his work related to bi-stable gaseous plasma digital devices, and 12 for his work on all-magnetic digital devices. Engelbart also founded the Bootstrap Institute (now called the Doug Engelbart Institute), where he was an inventor and computer consultant before retiring in 2008. | ||
Engelbart, with William K. English and John F. Rulifson, created the oN-Line System (NLS), the world's first implementation of what was to be called hypertext. | |||
Englebart is best known for inventing the mouse and for his demo at the Joint Computer Conference in 1968 that demonstrated online networking (NLS) that included hypertext, word processing, and the mouse. | Englebart is best known for inventing the mouse and for his demo at the Joint Computer Conference in 1968 that demonstrated online networking (NLS) that included hypertext, word processing, and the mouse. | ||
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*Lemelson-MIT Prize, 1999 | *Lemelson-MIT Prize, 1999 | ||
*John Von Neumann Medal Award (IEEE) and more | *John Von Neumann Medal Award (IEEE) and more | ||
*Engelbart and his colleagues were given the ACM Software System Award for their work on NLS. | |||
== Offices == | == Offices == | ||
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== Papers == | == Papers == | ||
* Stanford University Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Engelbart (Douglas C.) papers, 1953-1998. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft3n39n626/] | |||
* | *Doug Engelbart Institute Archive: Photos, videos, oral histories, equipment, texts, slides, software, early websites, etc. [https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/243/] | ||
*Computer History Museum, Mountain View, has materials relating to Engelbart. [https://computerhistory.org/] | |||
Revision as of 15:04, 11 March 2025
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013) was an American inventor.
Life
Douglas Engelbart was born January 30, 1925 in Portland, OR.
An obituary is available at https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-douglas-engelbart-20130704-story.html
Relevant Employment
Stanford Research Institute, Tymshare, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Bootstrap Institute
He died on July 2, 2013 in Atherton, CA.
Contributions
Engelbart invented many items that helped to revolutionize the computer industry, such as the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" (the prototype of the computer mouse). He holds a total of 20 patents, 1 for the mouse, 7 for his work related to bi-stable gaseous plasma digital devices, and 12 for his work on all-magnetic digital devices. Engelbart also founded the Bootstrap Institute (now called the Doug Engelbart Institute), where he was an inventor and computer consultant before retiring in 2008. Engelbart, with William K. English and John F. Rulifson, created the oN-Line System (NLS), the world's first implementation of what was to be called hypertext.
Englebart is best known for inventing the mouse and for his demo at the Joint Computer Conference in 1968 that demonstrated online networking (NLS) that included hypertext, word processing, and the mouse.
For more information, visit the organization's website at https://dougengelbart.org/
Publications
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework”
Awards
- American Society for Information Science. Special Award, 1996. (ASIS), 1997
- Lemelson-MIT Prize, 1999
- John Von Neumann Medal Award (IEEE) and more
- Engelbart and his colleagues were given the ACM Software System Award for their work on NLS.
Offices
Further reading
Papers
- Stanford University Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Engelbart (Douglas C.) papers, 1953-1998. [2]