Douglas Engelbart

Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with William English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world's increasingly more urgent and complex problems (which Horst W. J. Rittel and others since have called wicked problems).

External links

• The Man behind the Mouse (featured on BBC News Online)
• Bootstrap Institute Bio and Curriculum Vitae
• The Unfinished Revolution: Strategy and Means for Coping with Complex Problems; Jan-March 2000 Colloquium at Stanford University
• The History of Doug Engelbart and Interactive Computing
• The Study of Engelbart Educational Networked Improvement Community California State University Student Wiki studying Engelbart
• As We May Work from IBM Symposium site
• Column by Robert X. Cringely
• Wired article: The Click Heard Round The World
• Transcript of 2003 visit to San Jose State University
• Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, by Randall Packer
• Doug Engelbart: Father of the Mouse
• Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo Original 90-minute video
• A Fairly Extensive Set Of Links
• Engelbart and Wikis
• http://www.openaugment.org/