The inventor of the computer mouse died

At the age of eighty-eight, Doug Engelbart, the father of the computer mouse, died. 

The American inventor, a pioneer in the field of computer science, developed in the 1960s a two-wheeled mouse that was still wooden and then wooden. He also worked at an California research institute on early versions of email, word processing, and video conferencing. Her daughter reported her death to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. According to his information, his father was already in poor health. He died in his sleep Tuesday night, the BBC news portal wrote.

Doug Engelbart was born in Portland on January 1925, 30. His father was a radio mechanic and his mother was a housewife. He studied electrical engineering, also worked for the predecessor of the U.S. space agency NASA, but through his interest in computers, he eventually graduated from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and then established his own laboratory called the Augmentation Research Center, which also helped create the Internet's forerunner ARPANet. He first presented the mouse at a now legendary 1968 presentation in San Francisco, where he also held his first video conference. However, he did not enrich his invention, which became standard computer equipment: his patent expired in 1987, before the mouse became widespread.

Engelbart received the $ 1997 Lemelson-MIT Award in 500 and the National Technology Medal donated by the U.S. President in 2000. [MTI]