DOUGLAS ENGELBART By: Christina Rodriguez Cayla Wyvill

FACTS(:  Douglas Engelbart’s most famous invention was the computer mouse, also developed in the 1960’s but not commercially used until the 1980’s.  In 1942 he graduated high school, and went onto Oregon State University where he studies electrical engineering.

 Englebart developed a new dream; he later enrolled in a graduate program for electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, and earned his Ph.D. in  In 1963, Engelbart set up his own research lab. He called it the Augmentation Research Center. Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s his lab developed an elaborate hypermedia-groupware system called NLS(online system)

 He also invented windows, computer video teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, , the internet, and more.  In 1964 the first prototype computer was made to use with a graphical user interface(GUI) “windows”

 In 1968 there was a 90 minute staged public demonstration of the first ever computer mouse, and of everything else that he created.  The computer mouse got its name because the cord came out of the end of the mouse.

 Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is still working closely with industry and government stakeholders to launch a collaborative implementation of his work.  Engelbart has received numerous awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity. His life's work, with his "big-picture" vision and persistent pioneering breakthroughs, has made a significant impact on the past, present, and future of personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing.