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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Apple alleges that HP’s New Wave interface, requiring version 2.03 Menus list choices of action.

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

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Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Laser printers. Networks that link personal computers in offices.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. You’re crazy.”

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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.