Doug Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse

Hi everyone! Today's selection is a podcast from NerdTV, in which host Robert Cringely interviewed Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse. The original podcast was published on 9 December 2005 as Show #11 at:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/

The show notes included:

"Doug invented computer networks, time sharing, graphical user interfaces, and the mouse--all while driving to work one day in 1951. Really."

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Best regards,

Burks

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NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us. NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions. If not THE future of television, NerdTV represents a future of television for niche audiences that have deep interest in certain topics.