Douglas Engelbart -- the father of the computer mouse and so many of the other basic concepts that drive our personal machines and the modern internet -- has died at the age of 88.
According to an email from his daughter, posted to a mailing list dedicated to classic computers, Engelbart died "peacefully" in his sleep at his home in Atherton, California.
In the late 1960s, at the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI, in Menlo Park, California, Engelbart oversaw the creation of NLS, a system that provided instant communication over a computer network -- including what he now call video conferencing -- and paired a mouse with a graphical user interface 15 years before the arrival of the Apple Macintosh.
By: Cade Metz, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/04/douglas-engelbard
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