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 ...

William English, one of the key engineers who helped create the mouse and a way to move images on a screen, has passed away. English died from respiratory failure in California on July 26 aged 91, ...

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 ...