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Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
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Years before personal computers and desktop information processing
became commonplace or even practicable, Douglas Carl Engelbart
had invented a number of interactive, user-friendly information
access systems that we take for granted today: the computer
mouse,
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Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
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X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System Computer Mouse
Patent Number(s) 3,541,541
Douglas Engelbart's patent for the mouse is only a representation of his pioneering working designing modern interactive computer environments.
Engelbart was how the computer could be used as a useful tool in
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Fascinating facts about Grace Hopper inventor of the first computer compiler in 1952.
Fascinating facts about Grace
Hopper inventor of the first computer compiler in 1952.
Hopper (born Grace Brewster Murray)
1906 in New York, New York
1,1992 in Alexandria, Virginia
Grace Murray Hopper, American Navy officer, mathematician, and pioneer in data
processing, born in New York City
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Brief biographic highlights, inducted 2002. [Invent Now]
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Patent Number(s) 6,199,042
Ray Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reading Machine, the first device
to transform print into computer-spoken words, enabling blind and visually
impaired people to read printed materials. When this print-to-speech
reading machine was invented in 1976, the technology was
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