Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize. http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today. http://www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html
Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture. http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html
Douglas Engelbart's early ideas about computing, like those of other valley pioneers, were way out there; 30 years later, the rest of us are catching on. Warm, sympathetic reasonably long piece; good pictures. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/special/engelbart/