So that's how we got the first mouse." His modest assessment understated the sensation the mouse created when he showed it off for the very first time at a computer conference in 1968.

The decorated visionary behind the computer mouse, Douglas C. Engelbart, passed away on Tuesday of kidney failure. The 88-year-old tech whiz began working on the mouse in 1964, and guided a team ...

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.

Why the Computer Mouse’s Inventor Isn’t the Big Cheese 3 minute read A prototype of the first mouse, from 1968 Rue des Archives / APIC / Getty Images By Jennifer Latson ...

Though the mouse didn't become the standard way to control a desktop computer until Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it was first invented 20 years earlier by a visionary World War II veteran ...

An April 9, 1997 photo of Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse and winner of the half-million dollar 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize, posing with the computer mouse he designed, in New York.

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the groundwork for the interactive technology we now take for ...

Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer science visionary who was credited with inventing the mouse, the now-ubiquitous device that first allowed consumers to navigate virtual desktops with clicks and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first computer mouse was a wooden shell with metal wheels. The man behind it, tech visionary Doug Engelbart, has died at 88 after transforming the way people work, play ...

U.S. inventor and 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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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.