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{{Short description|American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)}}
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| name = Douglas Engelbart
| image = SRI Douglas Engelbart 1968 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Engelbart in 1968
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|01|30|mf=y}}
| birth_name = Douglas Carl Engelbart
| birth_place = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|07|02|1925|01|30}}
| death_place = [[Atherton, California]], U.S.
| death_cause = 
| field = {{ubl|[[Human–computer interaction]]<ref name="augmenting">{{cite journal |last1=Engelbart |first1=D. C. |title=Toward augmenting the human intellect and boosting our collective IQ |doi=10.1145/208344.208352 |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |url=http://dougengelbart.org/pubs/books/augment-133150.pdf |volume=38 |issue=8 |pages=30–32 |year=1995 |s2cid=8192136 |access-date=September 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501124346/http://dougengelbart.org/pubs/books/augment-133150.pdf |archive-date=May 1, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>|Inventor}}
| work_institutions={{ubl|[[SRI International]]|[[Tymshare]]|[[McDonnell Douglas]]|Bootstrap Institute/Alliance<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/dei-footnote.html |title=The Doug Engelbart Institute |publisher=The Doug Engelbart Institute |access-date=June 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714013459/http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/dei-footnote.html |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>|The Doug Engelbart Institute}}
| education = {{ubl |[[Oregon State University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]]) |[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| doctoral_advisor ={{ubl|Paul L. Morton<ref>{{cite web |title=Ph.D. Dissertations – 1955 |publisher=Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of California Berkeley |url=http://www-dev.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/Dissertations/Years/1955.html |access-date=July 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501124427/http://www-dev.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/Dissertations/Years/1955.html |archive-date=May 1, 2015}}</ref>|[[John Robert Woodyard|John R. Woodyard]]<ref name="ACMTuring1997">{{cite web |title=Turing Award Winners: 1997 |author=Thierry Bardini |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/engelbart_5078811.cfm |access-date=July 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630095008/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/engelbart_5078811.cfm |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| thesis_title = A Study of High-Frequency Gas-Conduction Electronics in Digital Computers
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/301923912/
| thesis_year = 1956
| doctoral_students=
| known_for = {{ubl|[[Computer mouse]]|[[Hypertext]]|[[Groupware]]|[[Interactive computing]]}}
| prizes = {{ubli|[[National Medal of Technology]] (2000)|[[Lemelson–MIT Prize]]|ACM [[Turing Award]] (1997)<ref name="ACMTuring1997"/>|[[British Computer Society|BCS]] [[Lovelace Medal]] (2001)|[[Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility]]|[[Computer History Museum]] Fellow Award (2005)<ref name="chm">{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Douglas,Engelbart/ |title=Douglas C. Engelbart |work=Hall of Fellows |publisher=[[Computer History Museum]] |access-date=June 17, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702234621/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Douglas,Engelbart/ |archive-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> |NAE Member (1996)}}
| website = {{URL|http://dougengelbart.org}}
| footnotes = 
}}

'''Douglas Carl Engelbart''' (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of [[computer science]]. He is best known for his work on founding the field of [[human–computer interaction]], particularly while at his [[Augmentation Research Center]] Lab in [[SRI International]], which resulted in creation of the [[computer mouse]],{{Efn|The computer mouse has been subject to a parallel and independent invention, see {{section link|Computer mouse|History}} for more information.}} and the development of [[hypertext]], [[Computer network|networked computers]], and precursors to [[graphical user interface]]s. These were demonstrated at [[The Mother of All Demos]] in 1968. [[Engelbart's law]], the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

The "oN-Line System" ([[NLS (computer system)|NLS]]) developed by the Augmentation Research Center under Engelbart's guidance with funding mostly from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([[DARPA]]), demonstrated many technologies, most of which are now in widespread use; it included the computer mouse, bitmapped screens, word processing, and hypertext; all of which were displayed at "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968. The lab was transferred from SRI to [[Tymshare]] in the late 1970s, which was acquired by [[McDonnell Douglas]] in 1984, and NLS was renamed Augment (now the Doug Engelbart Institute).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/155/87/ |title=the Doug Engelbart Institute website |access-date=December 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209165419/http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/155/87/ |archive-date=December 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> At both Tymshare and McDonnell Douglas, Engelbart was limited by a lack of interest in his ideas and funding to pursue them and retired in 1986.

In 1988, Engelbart and his daughter Christina launched the Bootstrap Institute – later known as The Doug Engelbart Institute – to promote his vision, especially at Stanford University; this effort did result in some DARPA funding to modernize the user interface of Augment. In December 2000, United States President [[Bill Clinton]] awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the U.S.'s highest technology award. In December 2008, Engelbart was honored by SRI at the 40th anniversary of the "Mother of All Demos".