“Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the ‘mother of all demos.’ Speaking before an audience of 1,000 leading technologists in San Francisco, Engelbart, a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), showed off a cubic device with two rolling discs called an ‘X-Y position indicator for a display system.’ It was the mouse’s public debut.  He never received any royalties for the mouse, which SRI patented and later licensed to Apple.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/03/douglas-engelbart-inventor-of-computer-mouse-dies-at-88/

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