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Douglas Engelbart

Pioneer of human–computer interaction and inventor of the computer mouse

He read Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think" while on the island of Leyte, which greatly influenced his thinking.[1] Engelbart's 1962 report "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" proposed a research agenda funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.[2] He and his team developed the computer mouse, which he applied for a patent in 1967 and received in 1970.[3] He founded the Bootstrap Institute in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart.[4]

Engelbart finished his studies at Franklin High School in Portland in 1942, then spent two years in the U.S. Navy working as a radio and radar technician in the Philippines.[5][1] In 1948, he obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University.[1] During the late 1970s, the laboratory moved from SRI to Tymshare; Engelbart's career ended with his retirement from McDonnell Douglas in 1986.[6] Kidney failure caused Engelbart's death on July 2, 2013, at his Atherton, California residence.[7]

Quick Facts

Born
30 January 1925
Birth name
Douglas Carl Engelbart
Birthplace
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Died
2 July 2013
Place of death
Atherton, California, U.S.
Field
Human–computer interaction, Inventor
Workplaces
SRI International, Tymshare, McDonnell Douglas, Bootstrap Institute/Alliance, The Doug Engelbart Institute
Education
  • Oregon State University (BS)
  • University of California
  • Berkeley (MS, PhD)

Facts from the source article.

What the cited sources add

Engelbart's 1962 report describes a conceptual framework for augmenting human intellect, which he termed "intelligence amplification."[8] The Doug Engelbart Institute states that the objective of Engelbart's bootstrapping strategy was equipping groups with effective Collective IQ tools.[9] The Institute also describes Engelbart's call for a worldwide open hyperdocument system (OHS) framework.[10] The OHS framework addresses requirements for groups to amplify "group smarts" or boost their Collective IQ.[10]

The Institute notes that the OHS baseline requirements resulted from 50 years of innovation by Engelbart and his team.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dalakov, "Biography of Douglas Engelbart", History of Computers; Madrigal, "The Hut Where the Internet Began", The Atlantic, July 8, 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Markoff, John, "What the Dormouse Said", Penguin, 2005, p. 70; "U.S. Patents held by Douglas C. Engelbart", The Doug Engelbart Institute; Engelbart, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework", SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, Prepared for: Director of Information Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, October 1962; Engelbart, "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations", ACM Press, 1986, p. 87–100; "What is Building Information Modeling", Engineering.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Computer-aided Display Control English & Engelbart, July 1965; Hermida, "Mouse inventor strives for more", BBC News Online, November 5, 2001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tia O'Brien, "Douglas Engelbart's lasting legacy", San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 1999 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dalakov, "Biography of Douglas Engelbart", History of Computers (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "the Doug Engelbart Institute website" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Douglas Engelbart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Markoff, "Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse", The New York Times, July 4, 2013; Crocker, "Doug Engelbart", July 3, 2013; "Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart", October 31, 2014; "A Lifetime Pursuit", The Doug Engelbart Institute; "Technology visionary Doug Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at age of 88", The Washington Post, July 3, 2013; "Technology visionary Doug Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at age of 88", The Washington Post, July 3, 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Engelbart, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework", SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, Prepared for: Director of Information Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, October 1962. facts only, no text reused. dougengelbart.org
  9. "About an Accelerative Bootstrapping Strategy", The Doug Engelbart Institute. facts only, no text reused. dougengelbart.org
  10. "About An Open Hyperdocument System (OHS)", The Doug Engelbart Institute. facts only, no text reused. dougengelbart.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Douglas Engelbart (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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