From the Guardian | July 4, 2013
Doug Engelbart, the recognized inventor of the mouse, died at 88. He was known to be have invented a long of things which made the use of computer friendlier and utilitarian like word processing and teleconferencing, the windows. He did not profit much from the mouse because it took look for people to recognize its value after its patent expired and passed on to public domain. It was rumored that Apple bought the invention for Apple computer for a song from Xerox.
He was born in Portland, Oregon; took up electrical engineering at Oregon State U; and later worked for US Navy and worked as radar technician assigned in the PHL. He worked at NACA, the predecessor of NASA. He took up PhD at U of California and Berkeley and was discouraged to work there because of his many "wild ideas" and thus eventually joined SRI (Stanford Research Institute) (It seems t me that Stanford produced many great discoveries and even fueled the electronics and computer revolution in US
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