I didn't realize he was still alive. He gave a presentation 50 years ago sometimes called "The Mother of All Demos," where he demonstrated the groundbreaking work his team had done.
Alan Kay's team at Xerox PARC very consciously tried to create a computer system that could *easily* do what Engelbart's team took years of research to accomplish. The Mac OS, Windows, and all other graphical user interfaces go back to Engelbart's work, either via the PARC project, or directly. Just about every aspect of computing that we take for granted today sprang out of that demo that Engelbart and his team gave. RIP L --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > Inventor of the computer mouse and the computer graphical interface. >
