Famous Nerds #4 (cont)
Doug Engelbart
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- 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.
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