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Thirty years ago today, the first computer mouse to be used alongside a personal computer appeared. On April 27, 1981, the integrated mouse made its debut with the Xerox Star Information System. First ...

The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91. The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US ...

The computer mouse is 40 years old. Hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers on 9 December 1968. The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in ...

It rose from humble beginnings to become an essential piece of computer hardware. But as the computer mouse turns 40, there are signs that it could finally be heading for the big electronic scrapheap ...

The man behind the computer mouse, who transformed the way people work, play and communicate, has died at 88. Technology visionary Doug Engelbart died from acute kidney failure at his California home ...

The computer visionary Douglas Engelbart who invented the first mouse has died at his home in California. Douglas Engelbart, holding the mouse which he invented in the 1960s, has died aged 88.

The technology visionary, who conducted the world's first demonstration of video teleconferencing, had been battling Alzheimer’s disease The man who invented the computer mouse, revolutionising the ...

Engelbart died on Tuesday night, according to an email sent from his daughter, Christiana, to The Computer History Museum in California, where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005. Ms Engelbart did ...

The man who invented the computer mouse, revolutionising the way people work, play and communicate, has died at 88. Doug Engelbart died from acute kidney failure at his California home after a long ...