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Woman dies after being struck by train
2013-07-08 21:33:50| Railroads - Topix.net
A woman was struck and killed by a loaded coal train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway at approximately 6 p.m. Saturday.
Doug Engelbart, the visionary who foresaw the modern internet and created the mouse, dies aged 88
2013-07-04 15:28:33| Extremetech
Doug Engelbart, founder of the Augmented Research Center (ARC) at SRI and inventor of the computer mouse, has died at the age of 88. Engelbart was one of the first great computer visionaries, and perhaps the first to envision a future where computers, and more importantly networks of computers, augment human intellect. To this end, Engelbart and his fellow researchers at the ARC devised prototypes -- in the 1960s! -- that could be considered the forerunners of the World Wide Web, Skype, multiple on-screen windows, screen sharing, and the computer mouse.
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Computer mouse inventor dies at 88
2013-07-04 00:04:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, who also developed early versions of email, word processing and the internet, dies aged 88.
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Computing legend Douglas Engelbart dies at 88
2013-07-03 20:51:22| CNET News.com
The man whose work was behind such computing mainstays as the mouse, graphical user interfaces, and hyperlinks has passed away. [Read more]
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VIDEO: Controversial trader Marc Rich dies
2013-06-26 23:16:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Marc Rich, the trader controversially pardoned by former President Bill Clinton, has died in Switzerland.
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