The doctor Douglas C. Engelbart was born the January 30th 1925 in the Oregon.

Specialist in the radars to US Navy, this pioneer of the man-machine interface to the idea, as of 1950, to couple a video screen with a Computer. He is also the inventor of the mouse in 1963.

In 1968, whereas it is employed in Stanford Research Institute, it shows for the first time a graphic Environnement comprising windows to be handled with a mouse, as well as the use of a word processing in this environment, a system hypertext and a software of Groupware.

External bond

• '' The Man behind the Foam '' (featured one BBC News Online)
• Stanford Research Institute