Graphic+computer

[|graphic computer system] - Created by Doug Engelbart in the 1960s, controlled by a special keyboard and something called a mouse, that would let people work together on documents, manipulate complex ideas, even from far-flung locales.

The idea of the graphic computer, in 1950. "It just went together within an hour or two, about what computers could do," Engelbart remembers. "Because I'd been a radar technician I knew how radar made images on the oscilloscope, and also how radar electronics could change things on the screen. I knew that if a computer could punch cards or print on paper, it could draw things on the screen."

Mouse
 * innovation described in [|Doug Engelbart's biography]
 * [|X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System] - Patent 3541541, Issued November 17, 1970 - U.S. patent for the computer mouse, which Engelbart called an "X-Y Position Indicator." - drawing

Keyboard
 * [|How You Design a Keyboard] -

Monitor, display

human computer interaction


 * What do you think?**
 * ask * imagine * plan, create * improve

> input, output, display
 * Engineering ideas**

Now it is your turn. Here are some challenges for you to work on...
 * Show and Tell**
 * design your own human computer interaction device. How would you communicate with a computer? How would the computer communicate with you?


 * News, updates**


 * Learn more...**
 * [|Doug Engelbart] - biography
 * [|MouseSite] - background information

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