Douglas C. Engelbart Inventor Of The Mouse

Throughout the '60s and '70s, while working at his own lab (Augmentation Research Center, Stanford Research Institute), Engelbart dedicated himself to creating a hypermedia, groupware system called NLS (for oNLine System). Most of his accomplishments including the mouse and windows were part of NLS.

In 1968, a staged, 90 minute, public, multimedia demonstration of a networked computer system was held at the Augmentation Research Center, the first public appearance of the mouse, windows, hypermedia with object addressing and linking, and video teleconferencing.

Engelbart was awarded the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, this year (1998) he will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Currently, Douglas Engelbart is the director for his company, Bootstrap Institute in Fremont, California, which promotes the concept of Collective IQ. Ironically, Bootstrap is housed rent free courtesy of the Logitech Corp., a famous manufacturer of computer mice, the invention Engelbart is now famous for.

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