Passage: The father of the computer mouse 02:19 (CBS News) It happened this week: The passing of an inventor whose handiwork is in millions of homes and offices . . . maybe even yours.

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 ...

The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that’s what the device was eventually called when it debuted as part of a personal computer station, first sold by the Xerox Corporation on this day ...

U.S. technology visionary Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing with the invention of the mouse, has died at the age of 88. Engelbart first demonstrated his invention, along with video ...

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 Latest U.S.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Visionary inventor transformed the way people work%2C play and communicate He played a role in the creation of ARPANet%2C the government%27s precursor to the worldwide Web He also gave a legendary ...

Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88. AP. Engelbart died early Wednesday ...