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).

See also

• Collaborative software
• History of the graphical user interface
• Hypertext Editing System
• Ivan Sutherland
• Jeff Rulifson
• Machine augmented intelligence
• Ted Nelson
• Andries van Dam