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This time, in this page you are going to read about the most respected inventor of the device at your hand now. Yeah, the inventor of computer mouse. His name is Douglas Engelbart. He changed the way computers worked, from specialized machinery that only a trained scientist could use, to a user-friendly tool that almost anyone can use. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse U.S. Patent # 3,541,541) in 1970, describing it in the patent application as an "X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Read the brief description below…
Douglas Engelbart.
“Father of Computer Mouse”.
This mild-mannered computer scientist has received widespread recognition for his contribution to the technology that has revolutionized the way the world communicates. He developed mouse, the Device used by millions.
The mouse was first developed by Doug Engelbartz , at the Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, California.In the 1960s, at Stanford Research Institute, he and his team developed a set of tools to harness the growing power of computers. The tools include heavy tracking ball, joystick etc. In the end, the mouse won all the tests for speed and accuracy. At the time it was called an x-y position indicator. One of the members of the team nicknamed the device a mouse and it caught on.
As well as the ever-present mouse, his team developed hypertext linking, the integration of text and graphics, networking, a web-style browser and even video conferencing.
Douglas Engelbart was awarded the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation.
Currently, Douglas Engelbart is the director of his company, Bootstrap Institute in Fremont, California, which promotes the concept of Collective IQ.
“As fast as we get better, we are going to get better at getting better “
Douglas Engelbart
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