National Medal of Technology

The National Medal of Technology, the United States' highest technology honor, recognizes innovators who have made lasting contributions to enhancing America's competitiveness and standard of living and whose solid science has resulted in commercially successful products and services.

Computing pioneer and SRI's Senior Technical Adviser Emeritus, Dr. Doug Engelbart, received the 2000 National Medal of Technology for the work he led in advancing computer science during his tenure at SRI. Doug and his team created many of the concepts and tools that set the global computer revolution in motion. His vision and work in the 1960s resulted in the computer mouse, hypertext linking, real-time text editing, online journals, shared-screen teleconferencing and remote collaboration technology. Doug was also a key contributor to the early formation of the ARPANET community and the founding of the Network Information Center (NIC). His work is the foundation of personal computing and the Internet.