Inventor of Mouse:Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor , and an early computer and Internet pioneer . He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction , particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International , which resulted in creation of the computer mouse , and the development of hypertext , networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces . These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart’s Law , the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him. In the early 1950s, he decided that instead of “having a steady job” – such as his position at NASA’s Ames Research Center – he would focus on making the world a better place. He reasoned that because the complexity of the world’s problems were increasing, and that any effort to improve the world would require the coordination of groups of pe