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Douglas Engelbart
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(person)Douglas Engelbart - 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.

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I did the bibliography for the book that appeared out of that conference (Walker, 1971) and got to meet a number of leading lights of the field, including Pauline Atherton (now Cochrane), Douglas Engelbart, Margaret Fisher, Robert Katter, Frederick Kilgour, Robert Landau, Davis McCarn, Edwin Parker, Mary Stevens, and Roger Summit, the founder of the DIALOG search service.
Douglas Engelbart receives a patent on the mouse pointing device for computers
Inventor Douglas Engelbart said he can't remember who named it a mouse, but with its small, rodent-like shape and wire of a tail coming out the back, it certainly seemed fitting.
 
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