Dr. Douglas Engelbart is perhaps best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but when he unveiled that device at a computer conference in 1968 he also introduced additional technology that would ...

The computer mouse was one of those ideas that changed the world. It was such an intuitive and easy way to instruct a computer, that widespread global adoption followed and the impact of the humble ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...

My job as a journalist involves a lot of repetitive tasks — namely typing on a keyboard and using a computer mouse all day. Any job that involves repetitive tasks or stiff body postures can lead to ...

In just a few decades, the humble computer mouse has gone from cutting-edge technology to a rather ubiquitous device — and, in fact, one that seems a little outdated in an era of holograms and ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s work ...

If it had been up to Douglas Engelbart, his invention would have been called the "X-Y position indicator for a display system.” That's how the man who designed the mouse described what he'd made in ...

U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced ...

Your computer mouse contains a lot of bacteria and maybe even viruses, especially if it hasn’t been cleaned in eons. All the sweat and dirt from your hands clogged up on a single device is not healthy ...