About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Fuji Xerox, Xerox Alto games, Xerox people, PARC, Douglas Engelbart, Mesa, Xerox Star, Rank Xerox, Archie McCardell, Xerox murders, Charles Peter McColough, Charles P. Thacker, Japanese Super Cup, Howard Rheingold, Affiliated Computer Services, Robert A. "Bob" McDonald, Xerox 820, David T. Kearns, Ursula Burns, Anne M. Mulcahy, DocuTech, Fuji Xerox Towers, The Poppy Is Also a Flower, Bob Sproull, Xerox 914, Brian Cantwell Smith, Doug Cutting, Carol for Another Christmas, SDS Sigma series, Telautograph, Dynabook, Paul Allaire, Xerox India, Gary Starkweather, Joseph C. Wilson, Abbey Silverstone, Kevin Anderson, Pilot, Raster Document Object, Brian McBride, Alto Trek, Louis Monier, David Maynard, Xerox Daybreak, Sol Linowitz, Xerox Phaser, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Toshio Arima, GlobalView, Institute for Research on Learning. Excerpt: 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 David (14 months younger). They lived in Portland in his early year...
