Douglas Engelbart as a creater

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 Douglass Engelbart is a well-know as a revolutionary inventor of the modern computer.

According to an article,  Inventors of the Modern Computer,  written by Mary Bells, one of the most famous products that he's created is MOUSE.

This picture is the first mouse.

From Britannica.com

The first mouse has only one button. Also Mac mouse used to have only one button though....

Bells writes "In 1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface(GUI), 'windows'".
Windows is actually invented by Engelbert too.

Since he has done great works for the computer, he won Lemelson-MIT Prize of $ 500,000 in 1997.
In the next year, National Investors Hall of Fame lists his name in it in 1998.


Recently he has his own institute that is founded by his daughter, Christina Engelbart which called DOUG ENGELBART INSTITUTE.
The website says that the purpose is their organization is "Our mission is to accelerate progress toward this goal through broad-based collaboration, education, outreach, consulting, and hands on exploratory implementations. See Doug's call to action inAugmenting Society's Collective IQ and Bootstrap "Paradigm Map", with practical pointers and toolkits on our Bootstrapping Innovationresources page."