Douglas Engelbart, computer visionary, dies at age 88  Douglas
Engelbart is shown with the first version of the computer mouse,
which he created with a fellow engjneer at the Stanford Research
Institute and debuted in 1968. (SRI International)  Douglas Carl
Engelbart, who in the 1960s envisioned the power of
interconnected computers to accelerate the pursuit of knowledge
and solve the world's increasingly complex problems, laying the
foundation for the modern computing age and the Internet, died
in his sleep at his home in Atherton, Calif., on Tuesday night.
He was 88.  Engelbart's health had deteriorated in recent months
and took a turn for the worse over the weekend, his daughter
Christina Engelbart said in an email.  For years, many in the
scientific community dismissed Engelbart's revolutionary vision
that would bring computers — then bulky machines operated by
engineers and fed data on punch cards — into the digital age and
into homes and offices the world over. His team of researchers
toiled in relative