HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

DOUGLAS ENGELBART

Created the first computer mouse and hypertext

Bio:

Among Douglas Engelbart's inventions are the computer mouse and the use of windows on a computer desktop for displaying information. Engelbart's mouse and windows both were developed in the 1960s, a full decade and a half before they would see widespread acceptance.

Links:

http://www.bootstrap.org/

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/englebart.html

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