NYT: died inventor of the computer mouse Douglas Engelbart - BBC

computer mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart has died at the age of 88 years, writes The New York Times . He died at his home in Atherton, California. According to the widow of the inventor Karen O’Leary Engelbart, the cause of death was renal failure.

How

like the newspaper, insight overtaken Engelbart in 1964, when he attended a conference on computer graphics and began to think about how to move the cursor on the display.

Engelbart developed several inventions that form the basis of modern computers. One of his creations, he gave the name “bug”, but later replaced the term is more harmonious “mouse.” Only in the 1980s. This development has become a standard way to control computers, the newspaper notes.

I Engelbart survived by his wife, three daughters, a son and nine grandchildren.