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.

Engelbart has served on the Advisory Boards of the University of Santa Clara Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Foresight Institute, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The Technology Center of Silicon Valley, and The Hyperwords Company ( producer of the Firefox add-on Hyperwords.

In December of that year, Engelbart demonstrated a ' hypertext ' ( meaning editing ) interface to the public for the first time, in what has come to be known as " The Mother of All Demos ".

Thierry Bardini has authored many papers and books on innovation, sociology of technology, and hypermedia: he is the author of Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace, where he described the history of hypertext through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.

All four of these books are based on interviews with Engelbart as well as other contributors in his laboratory.

The Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) at Stanford Research Institute, directed by Douglas Engelbart, was another of the four first ARPANET nodes and the source of early RFCs.

Teaming with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University 1989 – 2000.

In addition, Christina Engelbart spoke about her father's early influences and the ongoing work of the Doug Engelbart Institute.

This includes three of Engelbart's key papers, edited into book form by Yuri Rubinsky and Christina Engelbart to commemorate the presentation of the 1995 SoftQuad Web Award to Doug Engelbart at the World Wide Web conference in Boston in December 1995.

Engelbart is now Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is now Executive Director.

The name was coined by Christina Engelbart, Doug's daughter.

* 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

Doug Engelbart began experimenting with a keysets to use with the mouse in the mid 1960s.

Engelbart used the keyset with his left hand and the mouse with his right to type text and enter commands.

In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", a call to action for making knowledge widely available as a national peacetime grand challenge.

Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels ( computer mouse-), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, a few years earlier.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

Robert X. Cringely did an hour long interview with Engelbart on December 9, 2005 in his NerdTV video podcast series.

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.

Although the NIC at first used NLS, it was intended to be a production service to other network users, while Engelbart continued to focus on innovative research.

Doug Engelbart first envisioned collaborative computing in 1951 Doug Engelbart-Father of Groupware, documented his vision in 1962, with working prototypes in full operational use by his research team by the mid 1960s, and held the first public demonstration of his work in 1968 in what is now referred to as " The Mother of All Demos.

Meanwhile, working independently, a team led by Douglas Engelbart ( with Jeff Rulifson as chief programmer ) was the first to implement the hyperlink concept for scrolling within a single document ( 1966 ), and soon after for connecting between paragraphs within separate documents ( 1968 ), with NLS.

Ed Engelbart was named Township Historian, following a resolution passed on May 10, 2011, making him the first person to be named to this position in a decade.

It was first presented to the public by Engelbart in 1968, in what is now referred to as " The Mother of All Demos ".

Engelbart had volunteered ARC to provide the first reference library service on the ARPANET while it was being designed.

The first computer mouse underside view held by inventor Douglas Engelbart

Designed by Douglas Engelbart and implemented by researchers at the Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) at the Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ), the NLS system was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext links, the mouse, raster-scan video monitors, information organized by relevance, screen windowing, presentation programs, and other modern computing concepts.

The first instance of a collaborative real-time editor was demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart in 1968, in The Mother of All Demos.

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.

William ' Bill ' K. English is a computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.

The development of this field reaches back to the late 1960s and the visionary assertions of Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Glenn Gould, Nicholas Negroponte and others who saw a potential for digital media to ultimately redefine how we work.

Engelbart then formed a startup, Digital Techniques, to commercialize some of his doctorate research on storage devices, but after a year decided instead to pursue the research he had been dreaming of since 1951.

Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976.

Since Engelbart introduced the keyset, several different designs have been developed based on similar concepts.

In a famous 1968 demonstration, Engelbart introduced a computer human interface that included the QWERTY keyboard, a three button mouse computer mouse, and a five key keyset.

To type a command Engelbart pressed one of the three buttons of the mouse.

* Engelbart and English, " A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect ", AFIPS Conf.

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

Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart.

After completing his PhD, Engelbart stayed on at Berkeley as an assistant professor to teach for a year, and left when it was clear he could not pursue his vision there.

Engelbart took a position at SRI International ( SRI, known then as the Stanford Research Institute ) in Menlo Park, California in 1957.

He initially worked for Hewitt Crane on magnetic devices and miniaturization of electronics ; Engelbart and Crane became lifelong friends.

At SRI, Engelbart gradually obtained over a dozen patents ( some resulting from his graduate work ), and by 1962 produced a report about his vision and proposed research agenda titled Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.

Engelbart later revealed that it was nicknamed the " mouse " because the tail came out the end.

" Engelbart showcased the chorded keyboard and many more of his and ARC's inventions in 1968 at the so-called Mother of All Demos.

Bardini points out that Engelbart was strongly influenced by the principle of linguistic relativity developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf.