He died the inventor of the computer mouse
Today it was announced the death of Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse. Engelbart also worked on the earlier concepts of e-mail, word processors, and video teleconferencing. He died at the age of 88. On the death of the inventor of computer workers said today the Computer History Museum, who received information about the death of Christina Engelbart, the daughter of the developer.
According to her, Engelbart had suffered a serious illness and died on Wednesday night at home surrounded by family. Douglas Engelbart was born in 1925 in Portland, Oregon. He studied engineering at the State University of Oregon and during the Second World War, he worked on a special working with military radar and radio communication systems.
After the war he worked in the office, on the basis of which it was created by NASA, and also taught at Stanford University, where he opened his own laboratory research Science. It is this lab was at one time the first participant in the project military network ARPANet, on the basis that in the future, a network the Internet. Regarding his most famous invention - the mouse, the one time it was not appreciated, since then the computers occupied the whole machine rooms, application interface and they did not have.
When the inventor of the first computer was showing prototypes of mice, then he positioned the devices as solutions for presentations. Already in 1960, the mouse was patented in 1983 but it did not get popular, and 23 years later, when the deadline expired patents, the company SRI patented the mouse, a modified version of Apple's patent and sold for 40,000 dollars. Since then, at least one billion computers were sold with mice. Profits from sales-type mouse manipulators exceeded 300 billion dollars. Engelbart In his memoirs he wrote that in 1970 he firmly believed that sooner or later computers will be included in the daily life of every person on the planet.
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