COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Steve Engelbart
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Douglas Meece
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Steve Mouse
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Douglas Engelbart
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Detailed explanation-1: -Douglas Engelbart, (born January 30, 1925, Portland, Oregon, U.S.-died July 2, 2013, Atherton, California), American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware.
Detailed explanation-2: -Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse – U.S. Patent 3, 541, 541), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, sometime before 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -The computer mouse was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960s and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas was working at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, a think tank sponsored by Stanford University.