Timothy B. Lee of The Washington Post reports on the death of Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, and why it took 30 years for the public to adopt the technology. “Engelbart created the first mouse prototype in 1963. He showed off the capabilities of his invention, and of software developed to make use of it, in a famous 1968 demonstration. As amazing as his demo was, it would take almost three decades for the mouse to reach a mass audience. Apple released the first successful mouse-based computer in 1984, but text-based DOS continued to dominate the industry until Microsoft developed tolerable versions of Windows in the early 1990s. The release of […]

On July 1, new talents were added to the ranks of both the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council.  The CCC welcomes five new members to its Council and the CSTB added seven new board members. Joining the CCC Council are: Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin – Madison Ross Whitaker, University of Utah Tal Rabin, IBM Limor Fix, Intel The new additions to the CSTB are: Robert F. Brammer, Brammer Technology, LLC Luiz André Barroso, Google, Inc. Edward Frank, Apple, Inc. Laura Haas (NAE), IBM Corporation Mark Horowitz (NAE), Stanford University Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania […]