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Douglas Engelbart – whose work was behind such computing mainstays as the mouse, graphical user interfaces, and hyperlinks – has died at 88.

In an e-mail, Engelbart's daughter Christina said he had passed away peacefully in his sleep Tuesday night.

The mouse that roared: The mouse Engelbart and English created at SRI in 1968.
(Credit: Stanford Research Institute)

Among techies, Engelbart is perhaps best known for what tech writer Steven Levy once called "the mother of all demos."

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