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Famous Nerds #4 (cont)

Doug Engelbart

   
  • 1940's, trained as Electrical Engineer
  • 1950's, worked at NASA Ames and SRI labs
  • 1960's and 1970's, invented ...
    • the mouse
    • 2-dimensional display editing   (e.g. vi, emacs)
    • windows-based interfaces   (e.g. Mac, Windows)
    • hypermedia and collaborative groupware
    • etc. etc. etc.
  • had 2nd host on ARPANET, set up & ran NIC
  • currently running Bootstrap Inc.