Friday, July 5, 2013

Father of the computer mouse Douglas Engelbart passes away

Douglas Engelbart, the U.S. inventor who was known as the father of the computer mouse died on 3rd July at age of 88. Douglas Engelbart, was a technologist who laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market. He was a scientist and engineer who devoted himself to find ways to use computers to improve people's lives. He is survived by Karen O'Leary Engelbart, his second wife, and four children: Gerda, Diana, Christina and Norman. His wife Ballard died in 1997.

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