Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart
There are few men who are known for their technological proficiency and there are others who are known for their futuristic vision. But there are very few people like Douglas Engelbart, who are known for both. He is the man who revolutionised the computer industry by augmenting human intellect, and in the process, became the inventor of the pointing device of rodent likeness – the mouse. He was a man who talked about using the computers for online conferencing way back in 1960s; and though it is ubiquitous now, it was unfathomable then. His unfailing love for technology not only led to the invention of mouse, but also made him the inventor of hypermedia, groupware, cross fi le editing, outline processing and display editing amongst many others.

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