Dr. Douglas Engelbart is perhaps best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but when he unveiled that device at a computer conference in 1968 he also introduced additional technology that would ...

The computer mouse has become an essential part of personal computing, allowing users to interact graphically, that is, with the aid of their eyes, with virtual objects. While scrolling through a ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s work ...

We are saddened to report that William English, co-inventor of the computer mouse, died July 26 in San Rafael, California. He was 91 years old. Bill at the controls at Stanford Research Institute.

He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said. By Cade Metz William English, the engineer and researcher who helped build ...