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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, Marvin Minsky, Niklaus Wirth, Ole-Johan Dahl, C. A. R. Hoare, Douglas Engelbart, Herbert Simon, Fred Brooks, Dennis Ritchie, Kristen Nygaard, Stephen Cook, Edgar F. Codd, John Backus, Alan Kay, Robert Tarjan, Adi Shamir, Peter Naur, Ron Rivest, Ivan Sutherland, Butler Lampson, Vint Cerf, Richard Hamming, Robin Milner, Dana Scott, Kenneth E. Iverson, Maurice Wilkes, Jim Gray, John McCarthy, Michael O. Rabin, Bob Kahn, Ken Thompson, Allen Newell, Charles Bachman, Raj Reddy, Frances E. Allen, Charles P. Thacker, Richard M. Karp, Robert W. Floyd, Barbara Jane Liskov, Fernando J. Corbato, John Hopcroft, William Kahan, Joseph Sifakis, Leonard Adleman, Amir Pnueli, Alan Perlis, Leslie Valiant, Edmund M. Clarke, Manuel Blum, Juris Hartmanis, Andrew Yao, James H. Wilkinson, John Cocke, Edward Feigenbaum, Richard Stearns, E. Allen Emerson. Excerpt: Connection Failure Douglas Carl Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer and internet pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world's increasingly urgent and complex problems. Engelbart had embedded in his lab a set of organizing principles, which he termed his "bootstrapping strategy," which he specifically designed to bootstrap and accelerate the rate of innovation achievable. Engelbart was born in the U.S. state of Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart. He is of German, Swedish and Norwegian descent. He was the middle of three children, with a sister Dorianne (3 years older), and a brother...
