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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Simple pads on the bottom of the case carried the weight, and optical scanners detected the motion of the internal wheels. Apple alleges that HP’s New Wave interface, requiring version 2.03 In March 1989, U.S. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. and New York City. San Jose, Calif., You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Burlesque artist Ann Corio was among the celebrities targeted by an illegal wiretapping operation in New York City in 1955. New York City private investigator and attorney John G. Ruh, two rogue employees of the New York Telephone Company. Bettmann/Getty Images. Writing in the July issue of.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. It had a dynamic character generator that would create new patterns for characters and graphics as they came in.

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