Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart is an American engineer and inventor. He is interested for human-computer interaction. Engelbart is responsible for the invention of the computer mouse. This is a pretty cool invention seeing as how this makes a lot of computer part accessible. For example, the transition between a type writer and a computer could be argued the invention of the mouse. In the type writer you can write text, but you cannot backspace. You are also unable to clip anywhere in the document to review what you have done. With the mouse, and of course the software of Microsoft, we are now able to type on a computer but have the ability to move the mouse around and view different areas of the computer screen.