04.07.2013 14:06 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Douglas Engelbart, thank you for your great mind

Douglas Engelbart died on July 2 at age 88. If that name doesn't ring a bell, then look at your computer mouse and give thanks to this World War II radar technician who came up with the idea in the 1960s. Engelbart also influenced computer use in other ways, such as working on the use of multiple windows, network computing technologies. In addition, his lab helped develop ARPANet, which was the government network that predated the Internet. Engelbart had a long history in electronics, electrical engineering, innovation and design. He had a burning desire to boost "our collective capability to solve important problems intelligently, for which he coined the term Collective IQ," as noted through his web site

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