Douglas Engelbart

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Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf computer scientist
engineer
human
inventor
academicDegree PhD in electrical engineering
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
master's degree in electrical engineering
awardReceived IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Lemelson-MIT Prize
Loveless Award
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Turing Award
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1925-01-30
dateOfDeath 2013-07-02
developed NLS collaborative system
oN-Line System
educatedAt Oregon State University
University of California, Berkeley
employer Ames Research Center
NACA
SRI International
Stanford Research Institute
Tymshare
familyName Engelbart
fieldOfWork computer networking
human–computer interaction
hypertext
interactive computing
founded Bootstrap Institute
Doug Engelbart Institute
givenName Douglas
knownFor invention of the computer mouse
pioneering collaborative computing
pioneering graphical user interfaces
pioneering hypertext systems
pioneering interactive computing
memberOf National Academy of Engineering
notableWork 1968 Mother of All Demos
NLS
computer mouse
oN-Line System
occupation computer scientist
engineer
inventor
patent U.S. patent for the computer mouse
placeOfBirth Portland, Oregon, United States
placeOfDeath Atherton, California, United States
residence California, United States
sexOrGender male

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