About Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart invented or contributed to the modern computer's mouse, computer video teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, email, and the Internet. Douglas Engelbart has 45 patents to his name, the above are just a few. Mr. Engelbart dedicated a lot of his time to creating and contributing ideas to the Online System (NLS). This is a hypermedia groupware system. In an experimental video-conference at the Fall Join Computer Conference in San Diego, Engelbart got a standing ovation for the new technological devices that he and a few of his colleagues had worked hard to perfect. Most of Engelbart's accomplishments were involved with the NLS, because he spent most of his time perfecting this. For all of these inventions and contributions to the world of computers, Mr. Engelbart received the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000. Then, in 1998 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Douglas Engelbart now owns the Bootstrap, Inc. and that is where he proceeds to work.