1964 douglas engelbart biography

Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Oregon, USA.

He is most well known as the inventor of the computer mouse.

At SRI International, Engelbart was the primary force behind the design and development of the On-Line System, or NLS.

He and his team at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC, the lab he founded at SRI) developed computer-interface elements such as bit-mapped screens, groupware, hypertext and precursors to the graphical user interface. He conceived and developed many of his user interface ideas back in the mid-1960s, long before the personal computer revolution, at a time when most individuals were kept away from computers, and could only use computers through intermediaries (see batch processing), and when software tended to be written for vertical applications in proprietary systems.

In 1967, Engelbart applied for, and in 1970 he received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mou