Douglas Engelbart
Engelbart's systems research anticipated many practices of collaborative computing. His 1968 demonstration is significant to technical culture because it showed interacting ideas—pointing devices, shared work, links, and networked collaboration—as a coherent system.
Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and researcher who pursued computers as tools for augmenting human collaboration. At SRI, he founded the Augmentation Research Center and developed the oN-Line System, or NLS.
The 1968 demonstration
On 9 December 1968, Engelbart and colleagues demonstrated NLS in San Francisco. The presentation included a pointing device later known as the mouse, hypertext, shared-screen collaboration, and interactive editing.
In memoriam
Engelbart died in 2013. His institute and archival institutions continue to preserve a record of a career focused on collective problem-solving through computing.
Timeline
- 1959Founds the Augmentation Research Center at SRI.
- 1968-12-09Demonstrates NLS in San Francisco.
- 2000Receives the National Medal of Technology.
- 2013-07-02Dies in Atherton, California.
Douglas Engelbart
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1950s-2013
- Born
- 1925-01-30
- Died
- 2013-07-02
- Known for
- Computer mouse; NLS; 1968 demonstration; Augmentation Research Center
- Tags
- human-computer-interaction, mouse, hypertext, collaboration, computer-networks, research
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