Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2014).
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Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. 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 gra…
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science · American engineer and inventor (1925–2013) · inventor · engineer · professor · computer scientist · presenter · also Douglas Engelbart, Doug C. Engelbart, Douglas Carl Engelbart, Doug Engelbart, Douglas C. Engelbart, Engelbart
Born 30 January 1925 · Died 2 July 2013 · Q92614
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2014· 1 entry
2013· 6 entries
CRN: Obituary: Father Of The Mouse, Interactivity Douglas Engelbart
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Network World: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, dies at 88
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PC World: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, has died
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Gizmodo: Douglas Engelbart, Developer of the Early Computer Mouse, Dead at 88
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Died 2013-07-02.
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“We need to think about how to boost our collective IQ, and how important it would be to society because all of the technologies are just going to make our world accelerate faster and faster and get more and more complex and we're not equipped to cope with that complexity.”
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2011).
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Engelbart was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame
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2008· 2 entries
Engelbart was honored at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the 1968 "Mother of All Demos"
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To writer and producer Karen O'Leary Engelbart
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2005).
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Awarded Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility (2005).
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Engelbart received a National Science Foundation grant to fund the open source HyperScope project
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Was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for advancing the study of human–computer interaction, developing the mouse input device, and for the application of computers to improving organizational efficiency
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded CHI Academy (2002).
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2001· 3 entries
Won Lovelace Medal (2001).
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Awarded Webby Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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Was awarded the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal
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2000· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2000).
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1999· 3 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1999).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1998).
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The Stanford Silicon Valley Archives and the Institute for the Future hosted Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution, a symposium at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, to honor Engelbart and his ideas
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI awarded Engelbart the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1997).
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Awarded Lemelson–MIT Prize (1997).
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Was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award
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1996· 1 entry
And the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 1999 in Computer and Cognitive Science
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Software System Award (1990).
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1988· 3 entries
To coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University from 1989 to 2000
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With his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is executive director
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Engelbart and his daughter Christina launched the Bootstrap Institute – later known as The Doug Engelbart Institute – to promote his vision, especially at Stanford University; this effort did result in some DARPA funding
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1986· 1 entry
Determined to pursue his work free from commercial pressure
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1984· 2 entries
And NLS was renamed Augment (now the Doug Engelbart Institute)
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Expressed interest in his ideas, but never committed the funds or the people to further develop them
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1972· 1 entry
Several key ARC personnel were involved in Erhard Seminars Training (EST), with Engelbart ultimately serving on the corporation's board of directors for many years
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1967· 1 entry
And received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse – U
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1955· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, doctorate (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
And his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1955
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, bachelor's degree (1952).
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1948· 1 entry
Studied at Oregon State University, bachelor's degree (1948).
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1945· 1 entry
Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge
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1925· 2 entries
To Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart
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Born 1925-01-30.
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