Person

Douglas Engelbart

Portrait of Douglas Engelbart
Portrait of Douglas Engelbart

Demonstrated the mouse, hypertext, windows, and screen-sharing in a single 1968 session now called 'The Mother of All Demos' — a decade before the industry caught up. Believed computers should augment human intellect, not replace it.

Photo: Alex Handy from Oakland, Nmibia, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Worked at

  • SRI International

    to: 1977-01-01 · from: 1957-01-01 · role: Founder, Augmentation Research Center