Douglas Engelbart

✶January 30, 1925

†July 2, 2013

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Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)

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Biography from the article Douglas Engelbart on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.