page_title: René Sommer
hierarchical_section_title: René Sommer
caption_attribution_description: English: Douglas Engelbart and René Sommer Français&#160;: Douglas Engelbart et René Sommer
context_page_description: René Sommer was a Swiss inventor and computer programmer, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse.
  Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Sommer was credited for making the mouse "more intelligent" by adding a micro-processor to the mouse's design in 1985.
  Sommer died on 5 October 2009 in Saint-Légier, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 58.
  Logitech, which manufactured the original mouse, called Sommer a ‘brilliant and impassioned engineer’ in reaction to his death.
context_section_description: René Sommer (1951 - 5 October 2009) was a Swiss inventor and computer programmer, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse.
  Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Sommer was credited for making the mouse "more intelligent" by adding a micro-processor to the mouse's design in 1985.
  Sommer died on 5 October 2009 in Saint-Légier, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 58.
  Logitech, which manufactured the original mouse, called Sommer a ‘brilliant and impassioned engineer’ in reaction to his death.
caption: Rene Sommer (right) with Douglas Engelbart (left).
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