Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbartwas an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. 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 the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's Law, the observation that the intrinsic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 January 1925
CityPortland, OR
CountryUnited States of America
Douglas Engelbart quotes about
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems