onsdag 31 december 2008

Celebrating the man who invented the mouse.

40 years ago, Stanford researcher Doug Engelbart got a standing ovation in a San Francisco auditorium after introducing the computer mouse, hyperlinks, live text editing and interactive computing in an historic demo at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference. Tuesday, in Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, the now gray-haired, 83-year-old electrical engineer received another round of applause.... [read the full article]