Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse - New York Times (blog)

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Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse
New York Times (blog)
In his epiphany, he saw himself sitting in front of a large computer screen full of different symbols — an image most likely derived from his work on radar consoles while in the Navy after World War II. The screen, he thought, would serve as a display ...
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Inventor Of Computer Mouse Dies; Doug Engelbart Was 88 - NPR (blog)

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Inventor Of Computer Mouse Dies; Doug Engelbart Was 88
NPR (blog)
U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced today by the Computer History Museum. A scientist ...



Doug Engelbart, Who Foresaw the Modern Computer, Dies at 88 - Wired

Wired

Doug Engelbart, Who Foresaw the Modern Computer, Dies at 88
Wired
In the late 1960s, at the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI, in Menlo Park, California, Engelbart oversaw the creation of NLS, a system that provided instant communication over a computer network — including what he now call video conferencing ...



Interest in computer science lags in Mass. schools - Boston Globe

Boston Globe

Interest in computer science lags in Mass. schools
Boston Globe
In an era of crowded classrooms, students in the computer science class at Malden High School had plenty of room to spread out as they whiled away the final hours of the school year tinkering with programming code. Of the school's 1,850 students, just ...



Douglas Engelbart, Early Developer of the Computer Mouse, Dead at 88 - Gizmodo

Douglas Engelbart, Early Developer of the Computer Mouse, Dead at 88
Gizmodo
Douglas Engelbart, an internet pioneer and developer of the early computer mouse, passed away early this morning at the age of 88. Engelbart was involved in the development of the ARPANET—the precursor to the modern internet—and showed off ...



Doug Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88 - Fox News

Doug Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88
Fox News
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005, said Wednesday that it was notified of the death in an email from his daughter and biographer, Christina. SRI International, where Engelbart used to ...


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