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Book reviews: Holiday reading

...before the internet-with-everything, and independently of other visionary greats like Doug Engelbart, Nelson — the son of film director Ralph Nelson and actress... Read more

16 December, 2011

The hidden roots of the web: fifty years of PLATO

...the subject of some debate between Don Bitzer's PLATO team and Doug Engelbart's team of engineers at Xerox PARC, with their embryonic mouse... Read more

18 June, 2010

The man who built a better mouse trap

Doug Engelbart doesn't come across as a "mad scientist" type. The 78... Read more

18 September, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

US Report: The mouse turns 30

...technological development along a more socially conscious course. "When I was young, Doug Engelbart was incredibly important to me," said Jaron Lanier, the inventor of... Read more

10 December, 1998 by Steve Kovsky
Living and learning in a virtual world

Living and learning in a virtual world

Online veteran Howard Rheingold shares his thoughts on today's internet communities and what the future might hold Read more

12 February, 2007 by Daniel Terdiman

Would you be lost without your PC?

...potential for really developing our collective ability to learn and think," said Doug Engelbart, a pioneer of personal-computing technology in the 1960s who conceived... Read more

20 September, 2005 by Stefanie Olsen

Is technology good for our brains?

...t know it exists or don't know who you are." Indeed, Doug Engelbart, one of the pioneers of personal computing technology in the 1960s... Read more

19 September, 2005 by Stefanie Olsen

Mouse explores new surfaces

...it manufacturers other peripherals, Logitech is primarily known for mice. Mouse inventor Doug Engelbart maintains an office at the company. The MX 1000 will be... Read more

1 September, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Start-up hops into mini-keyboard market

...QWERTY keyboard have long been a quest for many high-tech companies. Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, has advocated mice with chord... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Apple bytes: The Mac at 20

...interface and interaction innovations can be traced back to the work of Doug Engelbart and his colleagues, initially at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI... Read more

23 January, 2004 by Nico Macdonald

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