Engelbart, Douglas ==>
Douglas Engelbart
<person> Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse.
On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with
him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo
Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on
live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a
session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention
Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer
professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext,
object addressing, dynamic file linking, and shared-screen collaboration
involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio
and video interface.
The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse,
Web-board.
Biography.
Tia O'Brien, "The Mouse", Silicon Valley News.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm.
(2003-08-06)
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