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Douglas Engelbart, who catapulted computing into the modern age in 1968 with a jaw-dropping and highly influential demo of graphical user interfaces, hyperlinks, collaborative computing, WYSIWYG text ...

The man whose work was behind such computing mainstays as the mouse, graphical user interfaces, and hyperlinks has passed away. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys ...

The Mother of all Tech Demos continues to resonate in the computing industry, decades after it started a graphical revolution. On this day in technology and business history... On Dec. 9, 1968, a ...

Douglas Engelbart died at his home in California on July 3. He was 88 years of age. Engelbart may be best known as the inventor of the computer mouse — initially called “the bug,” what we now know as ...

Before his lab was shut down, before he lost all of his funding and before his dilapidated Silicon Valley home was surrounded by the billionaires who got rich off of his ideas, Douglas Engelbart gave ...

Fifty years ago, computer visionary and internet pioneer Douglas Engelbart, along with 17 researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), gave a public demonstration of a computer called the ...

At Facebook’s F8 conference, head of product Chris Cox warmed my heart by talking at length about the “mother of all demos,” the astonishing presentation which Douglas Engelbart gave at a San Franciso ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

The evolution of graphical user interfaces parallels the evolution of computing technology itself. As computers grow more powerful and sophisticated, so does their ability to display cutting-edge ...

Jonathan Roberts receives funding from AHRC, EPSRC. The arrival of Microsoft Windows 95 on August 24 1995 brought about a desktop PC boom. With an easier and more intuitive graphical user interface ...