Quoted from Mashable, Thursday (04/07/2013), news of the death of the Engelbart, first announced via tweet from hostory Computer Museum in Mountain View, California. SRI International, where Engelbart did a lot of work and also representatives of Douglas Engelbart Institute, also confirmed the news of the death of the Engelbart.
Engelbart gave the first demonstration of the computer mouse on December 9, 1968, which has since been dubbed the "Mother of All Demos". In addition to the mouse, Engelbart also shows a variety of technologies that are currently common in computing, including video conferencing, word processing, and hypertext. Research he did also pioneered trips graphical user interface (Graphical User Interface).
As for more than one year before holding the demo, Engelbart applied for a patent the mouse, which eventually he got in 1970. When the mouse is still a simple wooden shell with two metal wheels on his patent application is described as a "regulator XY position indicator to move the hand in order to move the cursor on the screen cathode ray tube".
Engelbart received many awards for the work he did, including the National Medal of Technology, received from President Bill Clinton in 2000. He also received the Computer Pioneer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). Even his hometown in Oregon declaring January 21, 2002 as "Douglas C. Engelbart Day".
Engelbart who was born on January 30, 1925 has left his wife, Karen O'Leary Engelbart, and four children and nine grandchildren.
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