鼠标发明者道格·恩格尔巴特辞世
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px][b]The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88.[/b][/size][/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px][b]电脑鼠标的发明者，道格·恩格尔巴特辞世，享年88岁。[/b][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's widespread use.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]He also worked on early[b] incarnations（化身，典型）[/b] of [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/93243.html]email[/url], word processing and video teleconferences at a California research institute.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]The state's Computer History Museum was notified of his death by his daughter, Christina, in an email.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Her father had been in poor health and died peacefully on Tuesday night in his sleep, she said.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Doug Engelbart was born on 30 January 1925 in Portland, Oregon, to a radio repairman father and a housewife mother. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px][b]'Mother of all demos'[/b][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University and served as a radar technician during World War II.[/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]His interest in how computers could be used to aid human cognition eventually led him to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and then his own laboratory, the Augmentation Research Center.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]His laboratory helped develop ARPANet, the government research network that led to the internet. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Engelbart's ideas were way ahead of their time in an era when computers took up entire rooms and data was fed into the hulking machines on punch cards. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]At a now legendary presentation that became known as the "mother of all demos" in San Francisco in 1968, he made the first public demonstration of the mouse.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]At the same event, he held the first video teleconference and explained his theory of text-based links, which would form the architecture of the internet.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]He did not make much money from the mouse because its patent ran out in 1987, before the device became widely used. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]SRI licensed the technology in 1983 for $40,000 to Apple. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]At least one billion computer mouses have been sold.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Engelbart had considered other designs for his most famous invention, including a device that could be fixed underneath a table and operated by the knee.[/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Engelbart was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize in 1997 and the National Medal of Technology for "creating the foundations of personal computing" in 2000.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Since 2005, he had been a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]He is survived by his second wife, Karen O'Leary Engelbart, and four children.
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