The mother of all demos is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration given at the association for computing machinery institute of electrical and electronics engineers acm ieee computer society s fall joint computer conference in san francisco which was presented by douglas engelbart on december 9 1968. A team at the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich liked the concept as well and built their own computer system with a mouse called the lilith computer sold from 1978 to 1980.

Computer Mouse Wikipedia

The mouse was originally referred to as an x y position indicator for a display system and was first used with the xerox alto computer system in 1973.

First computer with mouse. The xerox alto was one of the first computers designed for individual use in 1973 and is regarded as the first modern computer to utilize a mouse. Among the first was the xerox alto which went on sale in 1973. Designs with multiple buttons soon followed.

He invented the first computer mouse in 1963 and it was patented in 1970. The first cordless mouse was shipped in september 1984 with the metaphor computer see the nearby image of david liddle and donald massaro former xerox parc engineers. First of all this mouse was created just for locating the x and y positions in the display systems.

The mouse was built for metaphor by logitech and used infra red ir signals to transmit mouse data to the. A single wheel or a pair of wheels was used to translate the motion of the mouse into cursor movement on the screen. The computer also had a cordless keyboard and function keypad.

Bill english then the chief engineer at sri built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. Before long computers designed to work with a mouse were released. Using the mouse douglas was able to demonstrate moving a mouse cursor on the alto computer in the mother of all demos.

Inspired by parc s alto the lilith a computer which had been developed by a team around niklaus wirth at eth zürich between 1978 and 1980 provided a mouse as well. The inventor of the first computer mouse was douglas engelbart. While creating the first computer mouse he was working as a researcher at stanford research institute.