Douglas C. Engelbart
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
- Guynn, Jessica. "Douglas Engelbart dies at age 88; computer visionary." [Obituary] Los Angeles Times (July 3, 2013). [1]
- "Douglas Engelbart" Wikipedia [2]
Papers
- Stanford University Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Engelbart (Douglas C.) papers, 1953-1998. [3]