Doug Engelbart: Computer Mouse Manufacturer Dies At 88
Doug Engelbart, the author of the computer mouse and developer of early invention of email, word processing programmers and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum, where Engelbart had been a companion since 2005, said he died early today. The museum in Peak View, California, was reported of the death in an email from his daughter, Christina. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known.
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, when mainframes took up entire rooms and were fed data on punch cards, Engelbart already was envisioning a world in which people used computers to share ideas about solving problems. He said his work was all about “augmenting human intellect,” but it boiled down to making computers user-friendly. One of the biggest developments was the mouse, which he developing in the 1960s and patented in 1970.
Doug Engelbart, the author of the computer mouse and developer of early invention of email, word processing programmers and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum, where Engelbart had been a companion since 2005, said he died early today. The museum in Peak View, California, was reported of the death in an email from his daughter, Christina. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known.
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, when mainframes took up entire rooms and were fed data on punch cards, Engelbart already was envisioning a world in which people used computers to share ideas about solving problems. He said his work was all about “augmenting human intellect,” but it boiled down to making computers user-friendly. One of the biggest developments was the mouse, which he developing in the 1960s and patented in 1970.
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