Engelbart Douglas Karl

Engelbart Douglas Karl

Douglas Carl Engelbart  is an inventor of a computer mouse and the hypertext. Laid the foundation of interactive programming, sharing of databases, video conferences, a prototype of a window interface.

Biography

Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925, Portland, the State of Oregon (USA) in family of Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson of Karl Luiz and Gladis Charlotte Amelia Engelbart. Was an average child (in addition to him in family there was a younger brother David and elder sister Dorianna).

Engelbart graduated from the Portland college of Franklin in 1942, studied in Oregon State University. World War II managed to affect and Douglas - it served right at the end as the radio operator of the VTR of the USA on Fillipinakh. After return to native Oregon Douglas continued training and received the bachelor's degree in the field of "electronic engineering" in 1948.

In 1955 received a doctor's degree in Berkeley. It should be noted that Engelbart happened to participate in the closed military APRANet project. Its trial and error method of the personnel formed the basis of the organization of a command around the first distributed computer network. Engelbart and his subordinates became the main developers of the core of an information management system guaranteeing that the accumulated knowledge will not be lost and will not become unavailable owing to imperfection of technology of management of formats and protocols.

Then Douglas offered the world the NLS environment (oNLine System) including essentially new operating system, a universal language of programming, e-mail, the separated screens of teleconferences, the system of the contextual help. Engelbart paid to controllers and manipulators much attention, trying to create the convenient management tool a system. A furor was created by imperceptible "mouse" or, in language of the scientific report, "the indicator of positions of coordinates". With its help it was possible to manipulate objects on all plane of the screen.

First-ever computer mouse

Engelbart was one of the highest paid specialists of Logitech company. Here he acted in a role not only the consultant, but also the secret character of corporation. In 1968 he received from employers for the invention only the check for 10 thousand USD. All fee was immediately entered as the first deposit for a modest lodge far from the magnificent country houses usual in Silicon Valley.

In the first of July, 2013 Douglas Engelbart, one of the most famous engineers of Silicon Valley, died in the house in Atertona, the State of California, the USA, at the age of 88 years.

Quotes

Lifetime of the person in direct ratio to difficulties which he is able to afford to overcome. I afforded much.