* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

Douglas Engelbart recently filed two new patents for mobile chorded keyset devices and TipTap. mobi has released a chorded app for the iPhone with Douglas Engelbart.

* Bardini, Thierry, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing ( 2000 ), Chapters 2 & 3, ISBN 0-8047-3723-1, ISBN 0-8047-3871-8

Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.

Engelbart retired from McDonnell Douglas in 1986, determined to pursue his work free from commercial pressure.

The most complete coverage of Engelbart's bootstrapping ideas can be found in Boosting Our Collective IQ, by Douglas C. Engelbart, 1995.

Other books on Engelbart and his laboratory include Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing by Thierry Bardini and The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart, by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

* McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, a supersonic air-defense fighter and fighter-bomber, introduced 1960

The common name Douglas-fir honors David Douglas, the Scottish botanist who first introduced P. menziesii into cultivation at Scone Palace in 1827.

The Scottish Maiden ( supposedly based on the Halifax Gibbet ) was introduced to Edinburgh by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in the 16th century and remained in use until 1708.

The area inspired Douglas Furber ( lyricist ) and Philip Braham ( composer ) in 1921 to write the popular jazz standard Limehouse Blues, which was introduced by Jack Buchanan and Gertrude Lawrence in the musical revue " A to Z ".

Douglas DC-3 aircraft were introduced the same year for shorter charters.

Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday, and who is exactly 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito.

The film is introduced by General Colin Powell, narrated by Michael Douglas and includes interviews with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 1955, Douglas introduced the first attack jet of the United States Navy with the A4D Skyhawk.

Through the years of the Cold War McDonnell Douglas had introduced and manufactured dozens of successful military aircraft, including the F-15 Eagle in 1974, the F / A-18 Hornet in 1978, and other products such as the Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles.

In 1957, the long-haul Douglas DC-7C was introduced for long-haul routes but this plane would be supplanted after only three years by the jet age.

Henryson and Douglas introduced a note of almost savage satire, which may have owed something to the Gaelic bards, while Douglas ' version of Virgil's Aeneid is one of the early monuments of Renaissance literary humanism in English.

In addition to the time changes for the twelfth season, a new four-part story arc is introduced with MacMurray in a second role, that of his cousin, the Laird ( Lord ) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge.

In the early 1960s it introduced the Boeing 727-100 and Douglas DC-9 as well as the Fokker F27 Friendship for regional routes.

On December 17, 2007, the weeknight broadcast introduced an opening by Academy Award winning actor / producer Michael Douglas.

Andrew Shepherd ( Michael Douglas ) is introduced as an immensely popular Democratic president from the state of Wisconsin preparing to run for re-election.

Allegiant Air also operates McDonnell Douglas MD 80 jetliners from Fresno with nonstops to Las Vegas and has introduced Boeing 757-200 nonstops to Honolulu.

ARPA funding during the late 1970s was subject to the military application requirements of the Mansfield Amendment introduced by Mike Mansfield ( which had severely limited funding for hypertext researchers like Douglas Engelbart ).

Many years later a second series, Before the Fact, originally published in 1901, was discovered and published in book form edited and introduced by detective fiction scholar Douglas G. Greene.

Flowers introduced her to authors such as Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, authors that would affect her life and career, as well as Black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Fauset.

Eastern then introduced jet service, flying Boeing 727-100, Douglas DC-9-10 and Douglas DC-9-30 jetliners primarily to Atlanta.

These gifted executives, along with other key contributors, including Kevin Ellington, Douglas Johns, Steven Flannigan, and Gary Stimac, helped the company with the IBM Corporation in all personal computer sales categories, after many predicted that none could compete with the behemoth.

DARPA also funded the development of the Douglas Engelbart's NLS computer system and The Mother of All Demos ; and the Aspen Movie Map, which was probably the first hypermedia system and an important precursor of virtual reality.

* 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist

They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.

Douglas Adams's 1998 computer game Starship Titanic features the " Succ-U-Bus " in almost every room – being a pneumatic pipe transport system which goes all around the ship ; players must understand and use the Succ-U-Bus in order to progress and solve the puzzles.

Around this time, Douglas Englebart uses computer screens as both input and output devices.

* Outside the genre of science fiction, 1994's Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas ( based on the Michael Crichton's novel ) depicts a VR headset being used as a navigation device for a prototype computer file system.

Moore may have heard Douglas Engelbart, a co-inventor of today's mechanical computer mouse, discuss the projected downscaling of integrated circuit size in a 1960 lecture.

* Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 – a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.

* NLS ( computer system ) or oN-Line System, a pioneering computer system by Douglas Engelbart

Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 computer and influenced Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System.

For live-action production, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs ( Douglas Rain ; Majel Barrett ), radio dispatchers ( Shaaron Claridge ), or characters who never actually appear on screen but who give instructions by telephone ( John Forsythe in Charlie's Angels ), or mailed recording ( Bob Johnson in Mission: Impossible ).

* Software author Adam N. Rosenburg in his blog " The failure of the Digital computer ", has described the current state of programming as nearing the " Software event horizon ", ( alluding to the fictitious " shoe event horizon " described by Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book ).

* A. S. Douglas ( 1921 – 2010 ), British professor of computer science

Eminent computer scientists and neuroscientists have predicted that computers will be capable of thought and even attain consciousness, including Koch and Tononi, Douglas Hofstadter, Jeff Hawkins, Marvin Minsky, Randal A. Koene, and Rodolfo Llinas.

" Douglas W. Jones, a professor of computer science at the University of Iowa, stated " This is the barn door being wide open, while people were arguing over the lock on the front door.

An SDS 940 mainframe was used by Douglas Engelbart's OnLine System at the Stanford Research Institute and was the first computer used by the Community Memory Project at Berkeley.

* Douglas Hofstadter, computer scientist, cognitive scientist and author

The range of products offered improvements over a product originally developed at LAMI ( École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ) by professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and engineer André Guignard, who was involved in the design changes of the computer mouse originally invented by Douglas Engelbart.