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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., But it was simple to interface with the computer: the processor just read frequent samples of the potentiometer positioning signals through analog-to-digital converters. The ball mouse was the “easiest patent I ever got.

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