Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an
American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the
computer mouse,
[1] as a pioneer of
human-computer interaction whose team developed
hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to
GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of
computers and
networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems