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Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88
by Seva Lamberdar Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:27 am
SAN FRANCISCO: Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88.
His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of kidney failure.
Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the 'mother of all demos.'
Speaking before an audience of 1,000 leading technologists in San Francisco, Engelbart, a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), showed off a cubic device with two rolling discs called an 'X-Y position indicator for a display system.' It was the mouse's public debut. .......
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Douglas-Engelbart-inventor-of-computer-mouse-dies-at-88/articleshow/20906349.cms
>>> The origin of the computer mouse (as we know today) seems to be as the digitizer for geographical maps and engineering drawings (to determine / record x-y coordinates on drawings and maps). I used a device like that in 1970s to record points (x-y coordinates) from a metal forming drawing, but I don't think it was called a mouse at that time.
His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of kidney failure.
Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the 'mother of all demos.'
Speaking before an audience of 1,000 leading technologists in San Francisco, Engelbart, a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), showed off a cubic device with two rolling discs called an 'X-Y position indicator for a display system.' It was the mouse's public debut. .......
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Douglas-Engelbart-inventor-of-computer-mouse-dies-at-88/articleshow/20906349.cms
>>> The origin of the computer mouse (as we know today) seems to be as the digitizer for geographical maps and engineering drawings (to determine / record x-y coordinates on drawings and maps). I used a device like that in 1970s to record points (x-y coordinates) from a metal forming drawing, but I don't think it was called a mouse at that time.
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