SAN FRANCISCO - Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

Truly one of the greats. I'm amazed at the vision of computing that he shared with the rest of us in 1962, the year I was born. A true visionary. One thing this underscores for me is how young the ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

At the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, the exhibits chart how technology got to where it is today. And there could be no better guide to this history than Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a soothing way to warm the hand when using a computer mouse," said an inventor, from McKinney, Texas, "so I invented the PROJECT ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum in ...

(CNN) — Douglas Engelbart, whose invention of the mouse transformed the way people interact with computers, has died. Englelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI ...